Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General AnthropologyWritten by a foremost spokesperson on cultural materialism, this book introduces students to the four fields of anthropology making all aspects of archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology accessible and relevant to readers. |
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Page 205
... Hunting and Gathering As we have seen ( p . 136 ) , hunting and gathering was the only mode of food production during the Pale- olithic . Most of the living hunter - gatherers who have been studied by anthropologists or who are known ...
... Hunting and Gathering As we have seen ( p . 136 ) , hunting and gathering was the only mode of food production during the Pale- olithic . Most of the living hunter - gatherers who have been studied by anthropologists or who are known ...
Page 210
... gatherers deplete their environments and pass the point of diminishing returns , they are likely to begin to adopt an agricultural mode of pro- duction ; when slash - and - burn peoples pass the point of ... Hunter-Gatherer Ecology.
... gatherers deplete their environments and pass the point of diminishing returns , they are likely to begin to adopt an agricultural mode of pro- duction ; when slash - and - burn peoples pass the point of ... Hunter-Gatherer Ecology.
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... hunter - gatherers by the vulnerability of wild species of plants and animals to depletion . As band size increases , per capita food production tends to decline , since hunter - gatherers have no effective way of creating a concomitant ...
... hunter - gatherers by the vulnerability of wild species of plants and animals to depletion . As band size increases , per capita food production tends to decline , since hunter - gatherers have no effective way of creating a concomitant ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PART I | 7 |
Dominant and Recessive Genes | 14 |
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