Susan Kent

Farmers as hunters : the implications of sedentism

Part 1 Cultural implications of farmers as hunters: stalking the wild pig - hunting and horticulture in Papua New Guinea, Abraham Rosman and Paula Rubel work and foraging, Renato Rosaldo hunting and male domination in Cashinahua society, Kenneth Kensinger. Part 2 Cultural behavioural implications of farmers as hunters: the spatial and behavioural characteristics of hunting in a semi-sedentary Amazonian Indian community, William Vickers the necessary complementarity of foraging and farming in Amazonia, Leslie Sponsel hunting behaviour of the Boyela, slash-and-burn horticulturalists of Central Zaire, Hiroaki Sato hunting, farming, and sedentism in a rain forest foraging society, P. Bion Griffin organisational variation in hunting strategies among eastern Botswana foraging and food producing populations, Robert Hitchcock horticultural intensification, resource depletion, and communal hunting, John Speth sedetism, aggregation, and hunting strategies - two case studies, Sarah Neusius.Part 3 Cultural material implications of farmers as hunters: hunters becoming farmers - the archaeology of the Ache transition, Kevin Jones artiodactyl utilisation among desert horticulturalists of the southwest, Frank Bayham and Christine Szuter cultural material patterning at sedentary horticulturalist versus nomadic hunter-gatherer camps, Susan Kent.

Gender in African Prehistory

Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization.