Aubrey Cannon - Structured Worlds: The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

Structured Worlds

Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology

Series Editor: Thomas E. Levy, University of California, San Diego

Editorial Board

Guillermo Algaze, University of California, San Diego

Geoffrey E. Braswell (University of California, San Diego)

Paul S. Goldstein, University of California, San Diego

Joyce Marcus, University of Michigan

This series recognizes the fundamental role that anthropology now plays in archaeology and also integrates the strengths of various research paradigms that characterize archaeology on the world scene today. Some of these different approaches include New or Processual archaeology, Post-Processual, evolutionist, cognitive, symbolic, Marxist, and historical archaeologies. Anthropological archaeology accomplishes its goals by taking into account the cultural and, when possible, historical context of the material remains being studied. This involves the development of models concerning the formative role of cognition, symbolism, and ideology in human societies to explain the more material and economic dimensions of human culture that are the natural purview of archaeological data. It also involves an understanding of the cultural ecology of the societies being studied, and of the limitations and opportunities that the environment (both natural and cultural) imposes on the evolution or devolution of human societies. Based on the assumption that cultures never develop in isolation, Anthropological Archaeology takes a regional approach to tackling fundamental issues concerning past cultural evolution anywhere in the world.

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Structured Worlds

The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action

Edited by

Aubrey Cannon

First published 2011 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen

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Contents

Aubrey Cannon

Peter Jordan

Ingrid Fuglestvedt

Aubrey Cannon

Gerald A. Oetelaar and D. Joy Oetelaar

S. Brooke Milne

Lesley McFayden

Liliana Janik

Helena Knutsson

Naoko Matsumoto

Simon Kaner

Aubrey Cannon

Aubrey Cannon, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L9, Canada.

Ingrid Fuglestvedt, Department of Archaeology, University of Oslo, 0315 Oslo, Norway.

Liliana Janik, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, United Kingdom.

Peter Jordan, Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF Scotland, United Kingdom.

Simon Kaner, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, NR1 4DW, United Kingdom.

Helena Knutsson, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Uppsala, SE-752 10 Uppsala, Sweden.

Naoko Matsumoto, Department of Archaeology, Okayama University, Okayama, 7008530, Japan.

Lesley McFadyen, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.

S. Brooke Milne, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5, Canada.

Gerald A. Oetelaar and D. Joy Oetelaar, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.

This volume began as a session I organized for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Montreal, Canada in 2004. Most of the original contributors to that session submitted their papers to this volume. Their contributions have been joined by those of other invited contributors, Simon Kaner, Lesley McFadyen and Gerald and Joy Oetelaar. I thank all the contributors for their willingness and ability to contribute to this volume, and the patience of those who had to wait longer than others to see this volume finally come together. I also want to thank Thomas Levy, series editor, and Janet Joyce, of Equinox Books, for their patience and support. The final editing of this volume owes a great deal to the editorial assistance efforts of Katherine Cook, of McMaster University, and I thank her for her skilled and patient efforts in helping to bring this volume to its completion. The quality of the final product benefitted enormously from the copy-editing and production skills of Duncan Burns. For myself and on behalf of all the contributors, I thank him for his skilled efforts, meticulous attention to detail and keen eye.