Montane foragers (Other Keyword)
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This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over 10,000 years ago, Native American foragers ascended the frigid, oxygen-starved Andes Mountains of South America. Not only did they solve the challenges of one of the world’s most extreme environments, their populations grew and developed agricultural economies and social institutions that would catalyze Andean urbanization and influence global economies. This book draws on over a decade of...
On the Trail of Homo through Earth’s High Mountains and Plateaus (2018)
Of Earth’s habitable landscapes, mountain environments present humans with some of the most striking adaptive challenges. But they also offer unique opportunities. Cross-cultural comparative research on montane hunter-gatherers in prehistory has focused on the settlement of expanses of contiguous high-elevation terrain – the world’s ‘high plateaus.’ Yet plateau peopling represents one chapter in a much longer evolutionary story of when, how and why ancient people engaged with upland landscapes....
Tracing Late Quaternary Highland-Dryland Social Connectivity in Southern Africa with Ostrich Eggshell Bead Strontium Values: Preliminary Results (2018)
Humans have frequented southern Africa’s highest reaches – Lesotho’s Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains – for ≥90,000 years. As with many high mountain systems worldwide, the Maloti-Drakensberg cast a rainshadow over closely neighboring arid lowlands (the eastern Karoo Desert). Based on previous archaeological and paleoenvironmental work in highland Lesotho, researchers have posited that source populations for human dispersals into the mountain zone often originated in the Karoo, particularly during...