Ashley Lemke. 2022. The architecture of hunting: the built environment of hunter-gatherers and its impact on mobility, property, leadership, and labor. Texas: A&M University Press; 978-1-62349-922-8 [Ressenya de llibre]

Abstract

[Ressenya de llibre] The complexity of hunter-gatherer societies is an open issue in current anthropological debates. Indeed, as ethnographic and archaeological studies improve our understanding of present and past foraging groups, the usual dichotomous categorisation into 'simple' and 'complex' (based on, for example, mobility patterns, resource management and socio-spatial organisation) blurs. 'It is time to ask what complexity in a simple foraging society really looks like; what does it mean and how does it emerge?' (...)