A01=Aubrey Cannon
archaeological theory
archaeology
art
Author_Aubrey Cannon
Baltic Sea Region
Blackfoot Crossing
Building Chains
Category=NKD
Circular Settlements
Clay Gurines
CWC
Dog Burials
Early Jomon
Early Neolithic
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
forager cosmology
gatherer
hunter
Hunter Gatherer Archaeology
Hunter Gatherer Cultures
hunter-gatherer mobility
jomon
Jomon Culture
Jomon Period
Jomon Societies
landscape archaeology
late
Late Mesolithic
Lithic Raw Material
material culture analysis
mesolithic
Middle Jomon
Northern Hunter Gatherers
Past Hunter Gatherers
period
Pottery Phases
prehistoric forager worldviews
PWC
ritual and belief systems
rock
Rock Art
Social Reproduction
societies
South Saskatchewan River
Swan's Bill
Swan’s Bill
Product details
- ISBN 9781845530808
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. 'Structured Worlds' examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe, Siberia, Jomon Japan, the Northwest Coast, the northern Plains, and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement, technology, mobility, migration, demography, and social organization. Spanning from the early Holocene period to the present day, 'Structured Worlds' draws on archaeology and ethnography to explore the role of beliefs, ritual, and social values in the interaction between foragers and their physical and social landscape. Material culture, animal bones and settlement patterns show that the behaviours of hunter-gatherers were shaped as much by cultural concepts as by material need.
Aubrey Cannon received his PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His main research areas include the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherer cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and the archaeology of mortuary practices.
