"Hunter-gatherers" is a term generally used to describe people from ancient societies who survived exclusively by hunting, fishing, or gathering wild foods. There is controversy today among scientists, however, as to whether any societies...

Hunters and gatherers, gatherer-hunters and foragers are all more or less synonymous terms, and are usually applied to those populations who live entirely by these two means of subsistence. Sometimes the terms are used more loosely to refer to...

Hunting and gathering societies in the contemporary world are relatively few in number, yet they have commanded an intense interest through the history of anthropology, and in recent years have become the centre of a major controversy. Peoples like the...

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For general information about hunting, see hunting. A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without significant recourse to the...

Alan Barnard (ed.) Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology. Oxford and New York, NY: Berg, 2004. Pp.278, notes, bibliog., index. US$50.00 (Hc.), ISBN 1-85972-825-7; US$16.99 (Pb.), 1-85973-820-6. Christer Norström Social Anthropology, Stockholm University 'The International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies'...

Hunter-Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology. GEORGE CROTHERS (ed.). Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper, Number 31. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2004. xii + 492 pp. $43.00 (paper), ISBN 0-88104-087-8. Reviewed by Donald H. Holly, Jr. In the opening...

Botswana's government Thursday accepted a court order to allow the Bushmen, the nation's last hunter-gatherers, to live on their ancestral lands. But at the same time, officials imposed tough conditions likely to prevent most or all from returning.The High Court ruled Wednesday that the Bushmen...

Aztec. Incan. Mayan.They're the most widely recognized ancient cultures of North, South and Central America, according to visitors surveyed by The Field Museum.But a new exhibit called "The Ancient Americas" shows that the Western Hemisphere was home to hundreds of diverse societies established long before...