Identifies culture as a key ecological variable in human ecosystems. Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Zusammenfassung

This book explores the relationship between cultural strategies and their biological outcomes, combining for the first time an ecosystems approach with cultural anthropological, archaeological and evolutionary behavioural concepts. Beginning with resource use and food procurement behaviour, the text examines major subsistence modes, the circumstances and dynamics of large-scale subsistence change, the effect of social differentiation on resource use and the effects of subsistence behaviour on population development and regulation.

Inhalt
History, Concepts, and Prospects.- Subsistence Modes.- Subsistence Change.- Resources and Social Organisation.- Population Development and Regulation.- Synthesis Towards a Biocultural Human Ecology.