Hunter-gatherer foraging strategies
Subtitle: ethnographic and archeological analyses
By: edited by Bruce Winterhalder and Eric Alden Smith.
Contributors: Winterhalder, Bruce.; Smith, Eric Alden.; American Anthropological Association.
Series: Prehistoric archeology and ecology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies; Indians of North America -- Hunting; Human ecology
Other titles: Foraging strategies: ethnographic and archaeological analyses.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 233-261.
Based on papers presented at the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: New perspectives on hunter-gatherer socioecology / Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder; title: Optimal foraging strategies and hunter-gatherer research in anthropology / Bruce Winterhalder; title: The application of optimal foraging theory to the analysis of hunter-gatherer group size / Eric Alden Smith; title: Foraging strategies in the Boreal Forest / Bruce Winterhalder; title: Alyawara plant use and optimal foraging theory / James F. O'Connell and Kristen Hawkes; title: The relationship between Northern Athapaskan settlement patterns and resource distribution / Sheri Heffley; title: Archeological applications of optimal foraging theory / David R. Yesner; title: Optimal foraging in a nonmarginal environment / Arthur S. Keene; title: The effects of information networks in hunter-gatherer societies / James A. Moore; title: Overview : optimal foraging analysis in human ecology / William H. Durham.