Beyond Affluent Foragers: Rethinking Hunter-gatherer Complexity (Proceedings of the 9th Icaz Conference) (Proceedings of the 9th Icaz Conference)

The term "affluent-foragers" has traditionally described the socio-economic conditions of some coastal fisher-hunters. It implies a high standard of living achieved by high levels of sedentism, made possible by efficient adaptation to the environment. This volume aims to reassess this concept, using case studies from Australia, South America and Japan. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Preface 8 Chapter 1: Why “Beyond Affluent Foragers”?: Looking Back at the Original Affluent Foragers Concept 10 Chapter 2: Gunditjmara Environmental Management: The Development of a Fisher-Gatherer-Hunter Society in Temperate Australia 13 Chapter 3: The Exploitation of Freshwater Fish during the Later Stone Age of Lesotho: Preliminary Results 33 Chapter 4: Mobility and Territoriality among Hunting-Farming- Trading Societies: The Case Study of Bear Hunting in Mountain Environments of Northeastern Japan 43 Chapter 5: The Significance of Freshwater Fisheries during the Jomon and Yayoi periods in Western Japan: An Analysis of Pharyngeal Tooth Remains of Cyprinid Fishes 54 Chapter 6: From Fisher-Hunter to Farmer: Changing Socioeconomy during the Chulmun Period in Southeastern Korea 63 Chapter 7: The Implications of Inter-Group Food Exchange for Hunter-Gatherer Affluence and Complexity 89 Chapter 8: Last Foragers in Coastal Environments: A Comparative Study of the Cantabrian Mesolithic, Yamana of Tierra del Fuego and Archaic Foragers of the Central American Coast 99 Chapter 9: Complexity among Hunter-Gatherers from the Pampean Region, South America 115 Chapter 10: Affluence on the Prehistoric Northwest Coast of North America 135 Chapter 11: The Environmental Troublemaker’s Burden?: Jomon Perspectives on Foraging Land Use Change 145 Appendix 170 Chapter 12: Resource Patch Sharing Among Foragers: Lack of Territoriality or Strategic Choice? 177 Chapter 13: Beyond Affluent Foragers 201 The term 'affluent-foragers' has described the socio-economic conditions of some coastal fisher-hunters. It implies a high standard of living achieved by high levels of sedentism, made possible by efficient adaptation to the environment. This title aims to reassess this concept, using case studies from Australia, South America and Japan.