Human Ecology: Biocultural Adaptations in Human Communities

Holger Schutkowski

Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Dec 20, 2005 - Science - 306 pages

This book explores the relationship between cultural strategies and their biological outcomes, combining for the first time an ecosystems approach with cultural anthropological, archaeological and evolutionary behavioural concepts. Beginning with resource use and food procurement behaviour, the text examines major subsistence modes, the circumstances and dynamics of large-scale subsistence change, the effect of social differentiation on resource use and the effects of subsistence behaviour on population development and regulation.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Human Ecology: Biocultural Adaptations in Human Communities; Volume 182 of Ecological Studies
• Author: Holger Schutkowski
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005
• ISBN: 3540260854, 9783540260851
• Length: 306 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Life Sciences / Ecology; Science / Life Sciences / Evolution; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science / Archaeology