The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological Evidence from the North PacificSpringer Science & Business Media, 31.07.2003 - 332 Seiten Complex hunter-gatherers have captivated anthropological and archaeological interest in the past two decades. Where it was once commonplace to view hunting and gathering as little more than a starting point for social evolution, today scholars appreciate great diversity in past and present hunter-gatherer societies. The challenge of explaining the development of complexity in hunter-gatherer groups breathes new life into hunter-gatherer studies, focusing not only on adaptive variation but also on evolution and history. This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. This book examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It strives to account for the dynamics and processes that transformed a population from low density, disaggregated, relatively mobile, and relatively egalitarian organizations into the demographically dense, sedentary, aggregated, militaristic, and ranked/stratified populations around the North Pacific by the time of ethnographic contact. To do so, this book examines seven thousand years of archaeological history on the Kodiak Archipelago - a region that 250 years ago was part of a broader phenomenon of complex hunter-gatherers ringing the North American Pacific Northwest Coast from California to the Aleutian Islands. This is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim. As such, it provides readers with an intimate look at archaeological evidence integrated into a problem-oriented study of emergent complex hunter-gatherers. It will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, students of archaeology and anthropology, and general readers interested in social evolution, complex hunter-gatherers, and/or Alaskan prehistory. |
Inhalt
Chapter | 1 |
Chapter | 8 |
Chapter | 11 |
Chapter 3 | 39 |
Appendices | 41 |
References 297 | 60 |
Chapter 4 | 67 |
Chapter 5 | 87 |
Chapter 6 | 101 |
Chapter 7 | 133 |
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adaptive Afognak Alaska Peninsula Aleutians Alutiiq archaeological artifacts assemblages behavioral Chapter Clark coastal colonization competition complex hunter-gatherer Crowell cultural Davydov Donta early Holocene Early Kachemak ecological economic ecozones egalitarian emergence Endemic warfare environment ethnohistoric evidence evolutionary excavated Figure fish Fitzhugh foraging ground slate groups Gulf of Alaska halibut Holmberg Holocene hunter-gatherer hunting increased individuals inequality K-selected Kachemak phase Karluk Kodiak Alutiiq Kodiak Archipelago Kodiak Island Koniag labor Laguna Late Kachemak lineage littoral maritime North Pacific Rim Northwest Coast Ocean Bay period Old Harbor Photo by author political population population densities potlatch predictable Prince William Sound processing production raw materials region relatively Russian salmon sea lion sea mammals sea otter seasonal Shelikhov shellfish Sitkalidak Island slaves societies spawning species Steffian storage streams subsistence suggests summer Tanginak Spring technologies terrestrial Three Saints Bay Tlingit trade variability villages warfare wealth whale winter Winterhalder year-round zone