Desert Peoples: Archaeological PerspectivesISBN: 978-1-4051-0090-8
Hardcover
318 pages
January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- Provides a comparative overview of cultural and ecological
processes affecting hunter-gatherer societies in deserts
- Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as
diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the
coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core
deserts of Africa
- Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human
adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief
systems that underpin them
- Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists