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Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: Some Theoretical Explorations and Archaeological Tests
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45000 years of hunter-gatherer history as seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter
… assemblages, and the relationship between hunter-gatherers and farmers between AD 400-AD 800. The primary aim of this thesis is to describe the excavation and the results, showing how Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter contributes to a broader understanding of the southern African MSA and LSA …
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Establishment of Community Knowledge Centre to Indigenous Hunter - Gatherer Communities Mbulu District, Tanzania
… a Community Knowledge Centre (CKC) to Indigenous hunter gatherer of Mongo wa Mono and Domanga. Establishment of the CKC was a result of the Community Needs Assessment (CNA) which found that communities of indigenous hunter gatherer had inadequate knowledge and that they cannot socially and …
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The role of seals in coastal hunter-gatherer lifeways at Robberg, South Africa
Seals were a major dietary item for coastal hunter-gatherers and herders in South Africa. At Nelson Bay Cave (NBC), more than half of the Holocene mammal bones are from Cape Fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus). Previous analyses of the seal assemblage from this site have studied only selected …
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The Mesolithic hunters of the Trentino: a case study in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence
… that in order to understand this period of hunter-gatherer prehistory, it is necessary to examine both animal bones and lithic material. These represent the mainforms of archaeological evidence recorded from a series of valley bottom rock shelter and open air high altitude sites in the …
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European impacts on the Seacow River valley and its hunter-gatherer inhabitants, AD. 1770-1900
… eighteenth century, they encountered Bushmen hunter-gatherers who were already occupying the land. The impact which these Europeans had on one geographical region, the Seacow River valley in the north-east Karoo region, and on the hunter-gatherers living there, form the basic theme of this …
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People making history : the last ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer communities in the Thukela Basin
… 10 000 BP AD 1800 history of the Thukela Basin hunter-gatherers. The primary information for this study comes from my excavation, between 1981 and 1984, of eight rock shelters in the upper Thukela catchment. My aims and theoretical orientation have altered substantially since the project's …
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A comparison of hunter-gatherer material culture from Matjes River Rock Shelter and Nelson Bay Cave
This thesis investigates whether or not there is a material cultural expression of the economic (and by inference, social) difference seen in the stable isotope values of human skeletons from Robberg/Plettenberg Bay and Matjes River Rock Shelter between 4500 and 2000 B.P. After 2000 B.P. the …
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Campfires in context hunter-gatherer fire technology and the archaeological record of the South High Plains, USA.
… thermal features (LTFs) built by the prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups living on and around the Southern High Plains of North America. The aim of the programme is to examine the extent to which variation in the construction, use, and archaeological expression of these features is valuable for …
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The history and archaeology of pastoralist and hunter-gatherer settlement in the North-Western Cape, South Africa
… the region. It would appear that Khoe-speaking hunter-gatherers with livestock and pottery first entered Namaqualand along the Orange River before moving southward along the Atlantic coast. Both sheep and pottery are present at /Ai tomas in the Richtersveld and Spoeg River Cave on the coast, …
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A Comparison Study of Vertebral Degenerative Joint Disease in the Hunter-Gatherer Population at Indian Knoll, Kentucky and Agriculturalists
… joint disease) in the vertebral elements of hunter-gatherer populations and agricultural populations in order to determine whether farming or hunting and gathering places greater occupational stress on the vertebral column. It is hypothesized that with the intensification of agriculture the …
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A Comparison Study of Vertebral Degenerative Joint Disease in the Hunter-Gatherer Population at Indian Knoll, Kentucky and Agriculturalists
… joint disease) in the vertebral elements of hunter-gatherer populations and agricultural populations in order to determine whether farming or hunting and gathering places greater occupational stress on the vertebral column. It is hypothesized that with the intensification of agriculture the …
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A cross-cultural investigation of learning among Hadza and BaYaka hunter- gatherer children and adolescents from Tanzania and Congo
… diversity in, and evolution of, human cultures. Hunter-gatherers may be especially important to study knowledge transmission because these populations are culturally distinct from Western societies, and because hunting and gathering is the oldest human subsistence strategy. Thus, hunter- …
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The role of geophytes in stone age hunter-gatherer subsistence and human evolution in the greater cape floristic region
… The role of geophyte resources in Stone Age hunter-gatherer subsistence was evaluated by firstly creating an ecological and environmental framework of data to evaluate the geophyte resource base. Secondly, the archaeological evidence available on actual hunter-gatherer foraging behaviour was …
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Considering the importance of wetlands to hunter-gatherer adaptation : a microbotanical investigation of Late Pleistocene plant-use in the Eastern Levant
… (ca. 28-14.5 ka cal. BP) (Late Pleistocene) hunter-gatherers, influencing the ways they chose to use, modify and manage the changing Levantine landscape through and after the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 28-19 ka cal. BP). The main objective of this dissertation is to employ phytolith and …
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Assessing Evolutionary Explanations of Human Behaviour Using Visual Cognition.
The ‘hunter gatherer hypothesis’ posits that prehistoric environments and social roles have resulted in the evolution of specific, yet distinct cognitive abilities in men and women (Silverman & Eals, 1992). The majority of previous research however has focused solely on sex differences in spatial …
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Subsistence Change and Emergent Social Inequality in an Early Complex Hunter-Gatherer Winter Village: A Zooarchaeological Assessment of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), Middle Fraser B.C.
… Emergent Social Inequality in an Early Complex Hunter-Gatherer Winter Village: A Zooarchaeological Assessment of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), Middle Fraser B.C. Chairperson: Dr. Anna Marie Prentiss Analyses of faunal material from the 2008 excavations at the Bridge River Site (EeRl4) show that …
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Subsistence Change and Emergent Social Inequality in an Early Complex Hunter-Gatherer Winter Village: A Zooarchaeological Assessment of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), Middle Fraser B.C.
… Emergent Social Inequality in an Early Complex Hunter-Gatherer Winter Village: A Zooarchaeological Assessment of the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), Middle Fraser B.C. Chairperson: Dr. Anna Marie Prentiss Analyses of faunal material from the 2008 excavations at the Bridge River Site (EeRl4) show that …
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