Human Predators And Prey Mortality

Drawing from a wide variety of human societies and prey species, this book seeks to validate the importance of mortality studies for understanding modern and prehistoric human ecology. In a presentation that sets out to be both methodologically and theoretically innovative, the contributors combine archaeological and actualistic approaches with sea Edited By Mary C. Stiner. Papers From A Symposium Entitled Applications Of Mammalian Mortality Patterns For The Study Of Prehistoric Human Foraging Ecology Presented At The 54th Annual Meeting Of The Society For American Archaeology In Atlanta, Ga., April 1989. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [239]-276)