A01=Sibel Barut Kusimba
Author_Sibel Barut Kusimba
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Product details
- ISBN 9780759101531
- Weight: 608g
- Dimensions: 155 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jan 2003
- Publisher: AltaMira Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Foraging bands were the quintessential form of human social organization for most of prehistory. Current arguments rage on the genesis of the contemporary descendants of these hunter-gatherers and their applicability to our understanding of lifeways before agriculture and domestication of animals. Sibel Barut Kusimba addresses this debate by synthesizing the archaeological evidence in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present, where the greatest time depth of foraging cultures can be traced. She develops a comprehensive picture of these foundational human societies, their social and technological adaptations to environmental conditions, and the impact of interaction from later economic systems on their lifeways. The book should be of importance to both cultural and archaeological anthropologists and their students.
Sibel Kusimba is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lawrence University and an Adjunct Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago.
