African Foragers

Bridging between the rival historical and evolutionary approaches, Kusimba (anthropology, Lawrence U. and the Field Museum, Chicago) takes an archaeological approach to hunter-gatherers, both as an evolutionary problem and as one of historical survival. He looks for the earliest archaeological indications of behavior resembling those already known from ethnography, and discusses the transformation of hunting and gathering into an economic strategy to coexist with Neolithic food producers and com…