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001 2004014009
003 DLC
005 20130912074507.0
008 040615s2005 mauab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004014009
020 $a1405100907 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1405100915 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm55729806
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dDLC
050 00 $aGN390$b.D47 2005
082 00 $a306/.09154$222
245 00 $aDesert peoples :$barchaeological perspectives /$cedited by Peter Veth, Mike Smith, Peter Hiscock.
260 $aMalden, MA :$bBlackwell Pub.,$c2005.
300 $ax, 308 p. :$bill., maps ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aGlobal deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Arid paradises of dangerous landscapes : a review of explanations for paleolithic-assemblage change in arid Australia and Africa / Peter Hiscock and Sue O'Connor -- Evolutionary and ecological understandings of the economics of desert societies : comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian deserts / Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird -- Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization amongst Late Pleistocene foragers of the Western Desert, Australia / Peter Veth -- Archaic faces to head-dresses : the changing role of rock art across the arid zone / Jo McDonald -- The archaeology of the Patagonia deserts : hunter-gatherers in a cold desert / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Perspectives on later Stone Age hunter-gatherer archaeology in arid southern Africa / Anne Thackeray -- Long term transitions in hunter-gatherers of coastal northwest Australia / Kathryn Przywolnik -- Hunter-gatherers and herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene / Karim Sadr -- Desert archaeology, linguistic stratigraphy, and the spread of the western desert language / Mike Smith -- People of the coastal Atacama Desert : living between sand dunes and waves of the Pacific Ocean / Calogera M. Santoro, Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, and Pablo A. Marquet -- Desert solitude : the evolution of ideologies amongst pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in arid North Africa / Andrew B. Smith -- Hunter-gatherer interactions with sheep and cattle pastoralists from the Australian arid zone / Alistair Paterson -- Conclusion : major themes and future research directions / Peter Veth.
650 0 $aDesert people.
650 0 $aArchaeology.
700 1 $aVeth, Peter Marius.
700 1 $aSmith, Mike,$d1955-
700 1 $aHiscock, Peter,$d1957-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0419/2004014009.html