Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement: A predictive model (Studies in archeology)

By Michael A. Jochim

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123854504
• ISBN13: 9780123854506
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant work from an excellent researcher

Jochim cuts through the normal profusion of obscurity to construct a model of hunter gatherer subsistence and settlement patterns based on a variety of ethnographic and ethnohistoric sources to construct a simple nomothetic, mathematical model for understanding the subject matter. I intend to incorporate this work into GIS models using contemporary data to see if it can inform my present day research in archaeological survey. The missing link, as usual for archaeologists pursuing "scientific" research, is the ideological underpinnings beneath the demonstrated behavior, which constantly confound researchers who demand "rational" behavior from human actors, often using models from animal behavior or Friedmanesque economics. This misses the incredible value of anthropology in its social/cultural aspect to explain behavior that to modern Euroamericans may make no sense at all, like intentional seasonal starvation or the concept of "luck" as a theory of practice in conduct of daily life for Athapaskan peoples. I recommend any Michael Jochim you can find for what seems to me to be clear and honest scientific research in archaeology.