Titlebook: Hunter-Gatherers; Archaeological and E Robert L. Bettinger Book 19911st edition Springer-Verlag US 1991 evolution.evolutionary theory.forag

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Hunter-Gatherers: Problems in Theory,erer”), there is a theory that defines where that fact starts and stops, what its variation consists of, and what causes that variation. Until the theory exists, the fact as a scientific phenomenon (i.e., as useful data) does not.

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1568-2722 ter-gatherers. The point is not to present a comprehensive or even-handed accounting of developments. Rather, I sketch a history of selected ideas that have det978-1-4899-0658-8Series ISSN 1568-2722 Series E-ISSN 2730-6984

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Hunter-Gatherers as Optimal Foragers,ast, neither approach confers undue interpretive or methodological advantage where the matter of research context alone is concerned: The range of potential ethnographic and archaeological applications for both optimal foraging theory and what is called middle-range theory are virtually unlimited.

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More Complex Models of Optimal Behavior among Hunter-Gatherers,p better models. These alternative models all sacrifice some of the simplicity of explanation that characterizes the foraging models previously discussed by introducing additional assumptions and logical complexity. In each case it is assumed that the loss in elegance is justified by gains in predic

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Marxist and Structural Marxist Perspectives of Hunter-Gatherers,ssential role of hunter-gatherers in anthropology. Note further still that by invoking these stipulations and the body of theory underlying them, I am denying deliberately any possible role here for what has been called “post-processual archaeology” (Hodder 1982a, b, 1983). As Yengoyan (1985) notes,

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Hunter-Gatherers and Neo-Darwinian Cultural Transmission,sults at odds with traditional evolutionary ecological interpretation. This simple modification in the assumptions about the nature of the transmission/reproduction process leads to predictions about behavior that differ fundamentally from those that follow from the genetic model upon which classic

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Book 19911st editione most prominently. The book begins with two chapters that deal with the history of anthro- pological research and theory in relation to hunter-gatherers. The point is not to present a comprehensive or even-handed accounting of developments. Rather, I sketch a history of selected ideas that have det

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Progressive Social Evolution and Hunter-Gatherers,itly evolutionary and materialist accounts of hunter-gatherers are uniquely mid-twentieth-century inventions. This is simply not so. Hunter-gatherer research has traditionally been undertaken within explicit theoretical frameworks and all but the most recent and doctrinaire interpretations of hunter

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The History of Americanist Hunter-Gatherer Research,al progress and determines its evolutionary trajectory. Hunter-gatherers were conceptually critical to that premise. In opposing culture and nature, progressive evolutionary theory necessarily implied that the behavior of primitive peoples was to be construed in natural rather than cultural terms, t

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