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 sea

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429715228
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Mary Stiner

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