Human Predators And Prey Mortality

by Mary Stiner

Overview

Drawing from a wide variety of human societies and prey species, this book seeks to validate the importance of mortality studies for understanding modern and prehistoric human ecology. In a presentation that sets out to be both methodologically and theoretically innovative, the contributors combine archaeological and actualistic approaches with se

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367012618
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/10/2019
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Actualistic and Archaeological Studies of Prey Mortality — Hunting Strategies, Prey Behavior and Mortality Data — Taphonomy and Early Hominid Behavior: Problems in Distinguishing Cultural and Non-Cultural Agents — Examining and Refining the Quadratic Crown Height Method of Age Estimation — Procurement Technology and Prey Mortality Among Indigenous Neotropical Hunters — Nonselective Small Game Hunting Strategies: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Aka Pygmy Sites — Prey Size and Age Models of Prehistoric Hominid Scavenging: Test Cases from the Serengeti — An Interspecific Perspective on the Emergence of the Modern Human Predatory Niche — Subsistence Change and Pinniped Hunting — Thule Eskimo Subsistence and Bowhead Whale Procurement — Seasonality Studies and Paleoindian Subsistence Strategies