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Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies.

Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa
Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them
Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists

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Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an overview of hunter-gatherers in desert landscapes. Written by an international roster of experts, this volumeexamines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal environments and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin these concepts. Desert Peoples brings together studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the US Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa. Ultimately, Desert Peoples' comparative approach profiles current understandings and debates about cultural and ecological processes affecting hunter-gatherer societies in deserts.

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Título Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives
Autor Peter Veth (Editor); Mike Smith (Editor); Peter Hiscock (Editor)
Encuadernación Tapa dura
Número de edición 1st
Edición 1
Páginas 318
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Wiley-Blackwell
Fecha de publicación December 1, 2004
Ilustrado Sí
ISBN 9781405100908 / 1405100907
Peso 1.52 libras (0.69 kg)
Dimensiones 9.92 x 6.78 x 0.9 pulgadas (25.20 x 17.22 x 2.29 cm)
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2004014009
Dewey Decimal Code 306.091

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Peter Veth is Director of Research at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra. He is the author of over 100 articles and books on the archaeology of arid zone hunter-gatherers.

Mike Smith is Director of Research and Development at the National Museum of Australia. He pioneered research into late Pleistocene settlement in the Australian desert and has worked extensively across the arid zone attempting to piece together its human and environmental history.

Peter Hiscock is a Reader in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.

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Hardback. New. Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues--oriented overview of hunter--gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies.