List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: the Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers, Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings
Part I: Theoretical Frameworks
1. Analytical frames of reference in hunter-gatherer research, Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings
2. Defining hunter-gatherers: Enlightenment, Romantic and social evolutionary perspectives, Alan Barnard
3. Historical frames of reference for 'hunter-gatherers', Mark Pluciennik
4. Adaptive and ecological approaches to the study of hunter-gatherers, Raven Garvey and Robery Bettinger
5. Historical and humanist perspectives on hunter-gatherers, Aubrey Cannon
6. Hunter-gatherer-fishers, ethnoarchaeology and analogical reasoning, Paul J. Lane
7. Man the hunter, woman the gatherer? The impact of gender studies on hunter-gatherer research (a retrospective), Kathleen Sterling
Part II: The Earliest Hunter-Gatherers
8. Introduction: the first hunter-gatherers, Jennie Robinson
9. The Neanderthals: evolution, paleoecology and extinction, João Zilhão
10. Modern human origins in Africa: a review of the fossil, archaeological, and genetic perspectives on early Homo sapiens, K.L. Kuykendall and I.S. Heyerdahl-King
11. Upper Palaeolithic hunters-gatherers in western Asia, Ofer Bar-Yosef
12. The European Upper Palaeolithic, Paul Pettitt
13. The Palaeolithic of northern Asia, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Sergei V. Markin and Andrei V. Tabarev
14. Homo sapiens societies: South Asia, Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin
15. Homo sapiens societies in Indonesia and south-eastern Asia, Sue O'Connor and David Bulbeck
16. Hunter-gatherers in Australia: deep histories of continuity and change, Iain Davidson
17. Into the Americas: the earliest hunter-gatherers in an empty continent, Marcel Kornfeld and Gustavo Politis
Part III: Post-glacial Colonizations and Transformations
18. Hunter-gatherers in the post-glacial world, Vicki Cummings
19. Post-glacial transformations among hunter-gatherer societies in the Mediterranean and western Asia, Andrew M. T. Moore
20. Post-glacial transformations in Africa, Andrew B. Smith
21. Post-glacial transformations in south and south-east Asia, Ryan Rabett and Sacha Jones
22. Post-Pleistocene transformations of hunter-gatherers in east Asia: the Jomon and Chulmun, Junko Habu
23. Post-glacial transformations: Danubian Europe, Jiří Svoboda
24. Transformations? The Mesolithic of north-west Europe, Graeme Warren
25. The resettlement of northern Europe, Felix Riede
Part IV: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Innovations
26. Prehistoric hunter-gatherer innovations, Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings
27. Stone tool technology, Steven L. Kuhn and Amy E. Clark
28. Art for the living, J. D. Lewis-Williams
29. Social complexity, Brian Hayden
30. Ceramic technology, Peter Hommel
31. Coastal adaptations, C. R. Wickham-Jones
32. Mortuary practices, Liv Nilsson Stutz
33. Plant domestications, David R. Harris
34. Animal domestications, Alan K. Outram
Part V: The Persistence of Hunting and Gathering Amongst Farmers in Prehistory and Beyond
35. Hunting and gathering in a farmers' world, Vicki Cummings
36. The persistence of hunting and gathering: Neolithic western temperate and central Europe, Detlef Gronenborn
37. The persistence of hunting and gathering amongst farmers in prehistory in Neolithic north-west Europe, D. C. M. Raemaekers
38. The continuity of hunting and gathering in the Neolithic and beyond in Britain and Ireland, Vicki Cummings and Oliver Harris
39. Forager-farmer contacts in northern Fennoscandinavia, Charlotte Damm and Lars Forsberg
40. The persistence of hunting and gathering amongst farmers in south-east Asia in prehistory and beyond, Huw Barton
41. The emergence of forager-farmer interaction in North America, Katherine A Spielmann
Part VI: Ethnohistory and Anthropology of 'Modern' Hunter-Gatherers
42. The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern' hunter gatherers, Peter Jordan
43. Hunter-gatherer research traditions in southern Africa, Robert K. Hitchcock
44. Central African hunter-gatherer research traditions, Barry S. Hewlett and Jason Fancher
45. Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions: Australia, Ian Keen
46. From ethnohistory to ethnogenesis: a historiography of hunter-gatherer cultural anthropology in the California and the Great Basin, David Robinson
47. Exploring hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, Sean O'Neill
48. Regional hunter-gatherer traditions in south-east Asia, Jana Fortier
49. Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions: South America, Gustavo G. Politis and Almudena Hernando
50. The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern' hunter-gatherers: North Japan, Mark Hudson
51. Hunter-gatherer transformations in northern Europe after 1500 AD, Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen
Part VII: Future Directions in Hunter-Gatherer Research
52. New approaches in the study of hunter-gatherers, Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings
53. Future directions in hunter-gatherer research: technology, Robert L. Kelly
54. Cultural transmission theory and hunter-gatherer archaeology, Jelmer W. Eerkens, Robert L. Bettinger, and Peter J. Richerson
55. Archaeogenetics of Africa and of the African hunter-gatherers, Viktor Ćerný and Luísa Pereira
56. Landscapes of mobility: the flow of place, Bruno David, Lara Lamb, and Jack Kaiwari
57. Personhood and social relations, Nyree Finlay
58. Materials, biographies, identities, experiences: new approaches to materials in hunter-gatherer studies, Hannah Cobb
59. Hunter-gatherer religion and ritual, David S. Whitley
60. Hunter-gatherer gender and identity, Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach
61. Hunter-gatherer diet, subsistence and foodways, Rick Schulting