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Blackwell Pub.
Language
English
Pages
308

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Desert peoples: archaeological perspectives
2005, Blackwell Pub.
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Table of Contents

Global 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Dewey Decimal Class
306/.09154
Library of Congress
GN390 .D47 2005, GN390.D47 2005

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x, 308 p. :
Number of pages
308

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OL3293894M
Internet Archive
desertpeoplesarc00veth
ISBN 10
1405100907, 1405100915
LCCN
2004014009
OCLC/WorldCat
55729806
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3519535
4238555

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