The lifeways of hunter-gatherers the foraging spectrum

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nat...

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Main Author: Kelly, Robert L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
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