Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Ethnographic and Archeological Analyses

Description

Editors: Winterhalder, Bruce and Smith, Eric Alden

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Pub Date: 1981 (First paperback printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Lower front cover corner bumped, bump extends through the first 70 pages.  There is an area of discoloration/delamination at almost the dead center of the front cover, an approx. 2″ circle.  You can’t see it unless you’re looking at the cover at an angle.  Previous owner’s name in pen on upper edge ffep.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Textbook.  This book was printed prior to the advent of computer typesetting, so it looks like a typescript.   “Hunter-gatherers, or foragers, live in environments characterized by diverse and heterogeneously distributed resources.  From the array of potential food species, foraging locations, and pathways, the forager can choose combinations which more or less effectively  and efficiently procure subsistence.” (From Chapter 4).  Lots of choices, lots of pathways, and damn, we gotta find our way back.  And surplus is always a problem.