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Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: Five Simple Models
by Robert L. Bettinger
This is a primer on foraging models relevant to the study of hunter-gatherers. It is intended for students new to the subject matter, especially those with little mathematical training, and similarly challenged ethnographers, ethnologists, and archaeologists who are familiar with the principles of foraging theory but have never mastered any of its individual models. There are more of them than one might think. The diet breadth model is the ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.95

Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity, and Animal Transformations
edited by D. Campana, P. Crabtree, S.D. deFrance, J. Lev-Tov and A. Choyke
Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for component groups. Here, in this book, 28 peer-reviewed papers that span 4 continents and the Caribbean islands explore in different ways how animals were incorporated into the diets and religions of many ...
Hardback. Price GB £80.00

Ethnozooarchaeology: The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships
edited by Umberto Albarella and Angela Trentacoste
This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices and techniques of deposition and disposal in traditional societies. Topics covered include the theoretical potential of ethnographic research for zooarchaeology, the use of comparative analogies in the ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

The Archaeology of Politics and Power: Where, When and Why the First States Formed
by Charles Maisels
Archaeology is not just about the past, but the present and future too. Much of our present condition and future prospects are inevitably bound up with what states do and what they fail to do.

To understand the inner-workings and motivations of states one must understand how and why they came into existence in the first place. This book describes how states formed in Egypt and Mesopotamia, China and the Andes, and also how the Indus ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Nomadic Felts
by Stephanie Bunn
Believed to be one of the earliest textiles, felt has been made by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia for over 2,500 years and the craft still thrives today as an integral part of their culture. Valued for both its functional and decorative qualities, felt is used to make yurts and all manner of objects relating to daily life, such as carpets, interior fittings, carrying bags, saddle cloths and clothing. Traditional feltmaking is also still ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands
by Susanne Küchler and Andrea Eimke
Quilts generically known as tivaivai have been produced by women in the Cook Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, the Society Islands and elsewhere in Eastern Polynesia since the late 19th century, where they were a substitute for bark-cloth but also used in ways deeply invested in the new context of Christian domesticity. In the Cook Islands, quilts are stitched to be given away at funerals, at weddings and other events marking stages of loss ...
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Time and Change: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Long Term in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
edited by Dimitra Papagianni, Robert Layton and Herbert Maschner
This volume explores long-term behavioural patterns and processes of change in hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. In doing so, this volume questions the disciplinary distinctions between fine and coarse-grain understandings of hunter-gatherer societies in anthropology and archaeology and challenges the perception that these distinctions are inherent to the two disciplines. The volume brings together studies that ...
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Practitioners, Practices and Patients: New Approaches to Medical Archaeology and Anthropology
edited by Patricia Anne Baker and Gillian Carr
Medical care in the past, and indeed present societies, can be studied in a number of different ways, including palaeopatholoy, palaeobotany, literary evidence, material culture and different medical ideologies and belief systems. These 15 papers from a conference held at Magdalene College, Cambridge in 2000 explore these diverse forms of interpretation, though largely focusing on material culture aspects. 272p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books ...
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The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third Millennium BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan)
by Sharri R. Clark
After more than 80 years of research, the Indus civilisation (c.2600-1900 BC) remains largely enigmatic. In this geographically extensive civilisation, which still has no known monumental art and undeciphered texts, the largest corpus of representational art at many Indus sites is terracotta figurines. The figurines are one of the richest sources of information regarding Indus ideology and society. Unfortunately, the figurines often have been ...
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Body Ornaments of Malaita, Solomon Islands
by Ben Burt
The Kwara'ae and other peoples of Malaita island in Solomon Islands once dressed for special occasions in ornaments of glistening white shell and pearl shell, intricately carved turtle shell, strings and straps of shell money-beads and combs and bands patterned with colourful plant fibres. Today these ornaments are easier to find in museums around the world than in Malaita, but the recollections of Kwara'ae elders help us to understand how and ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00