Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways

The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange, gender relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. By considering the actual, not imagined, reasons behind diverse behavior, this book argues for a revision of many archaeological models of prehistory.Kelly, Robert L. is the author of 'Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways', published 2007 under ISBN 9780975273883 and ISBN 0975273884.