This book takes readers on a journey through the night to discover the world of nocturnal animals living in their own backyards. This title focuses on hedgehogs, showcasing their behavior, habitat, di
An authoritative and beautifully illustrated book on wild food and foraging by a leading expertWild food is all around us, growing in our hedgerows and fields, along river banks and seashores, even on
These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in
Using evidence from the site of Gogo Falls in the Lake Victoria basin, Karega-Munene is able to reach more general conclusions about the nature of subsistence activities in East Africa as a whole betw
The goal of this volume is to impart an appreciation of the many facets of East Africa's cultural and archaeological diversity over the last 2,000 years. It brings together chapters on East African ar
Drawing on her field work in 1996 and 1997, anthropologist Cormier investigates the world view of a people near the northeast coast of Brazil such that they can both eat monkeys and nurture them as ch
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth ce
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Bar
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth ce
Intrigued by a slide showing a woman breast-feeding a monkey, anthropologist Loretta A. Cormier spent fifteen months living among the Guaj?, a foraging people in a remote area of Brazil. The result is
