Archaeology Quiz: Hunter-Gatherers

Archaeology Quiz: Hunter-Gatherer

From a 1992 article on the Nayaka in Man, anthropologist Nurit Bird-David makes some critical observations on trying to push people into cute little boxes.

The Ainu are modern hunter-fisher-gatherer group of the Hokkaido region of northeastern Japan.

The Hoabinhian Period is the name given to that section of Southeast Asian prehistory from about 13,000 to 3000 BC.

Quote 29: Bird-David on Hunter-Gatherers

The Plains Archaic is the name archaeologists have given to the hunter-gatherers who lived in the American plains between about 6000 BC and AD 500.

The Jomon culture in Japan is the name given to a cultural tradition that lasted for over a thousand years and included a long range of subsistence behaviors and artifact styles. Jomon sites have among the earliest samples of ceramics in the world to

The Natufian culture is the name given to the sedentary hunter-gatherers living in the Levant region of the near east between about 12,500 and 10,200 years ago.

The early Mesolithic archaeological site of Star Carr is probably one of the best known sites in England, occupied intermittently for about 300 years, beginning about 10,700 years ago.