Information and Its Role in Hunter-gatherer

Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume brings together a group of scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology. Each of these specialties deals with the question of information in different ways and with different sets of data given different primacy. The fundamental goal of the volume is to bridge disciplines and subdisciplines, open discussion, and see if some common ground-either theoretical perspectives, general principles, or methodologies-can be developed upon which to build future research on the role of information in hunter-gatherer bands. (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press 2011)

Figures, Tables, and Plates	p. vii
Preface
An Introduction to Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands	p. 1
Yupik Eskimo Gendered Information Storage Patterns	p. 29
Space, Information and Knowledge: Ethnocartography and North American Boreal Forest Hunter-Gatherers	p. 59
Modeling Hunter-Gatherer Information Networks: An Archaeological Case Study from the Kuril Islands	p. 89
Environmental Knowledge among Central African Hunter-Gatherers: Types of Knowledge and Intra-cultural Variations	p. 117
Where is That Job? Hunter-Gatherer Information Systems in Complex Social Environments in the Eastern Kalahari Desert, Botswana	p. 133
Borrowed Names and Indexical Function in the Northern Uto-Aztecan Botanical Lexicon	p. 67
Rite, Ritual and Materiality of Information in Mesolithic Europe	p. 181
The Role of Information Exchange in the Colonization of Sahul	p. 203
Information Exchange amongst Hunter-Gatherers of the Western Desert of Australia	p. 221
Rock Art Information among Hunter Gatherers in Northwest Patagonia: An Assessment of Environmental and Territorial Models	p. 235
Visits, "Fuegians" and Information Networks	p. 249
Foraging for Information among Foragers An Afterword	p. 267
A Synopsis of Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands	p. 281
Plates	p. 289
References	p. 297
List of Authors	p. 351
Index	p. 353
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