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Parkington, John

doi:10.1023/a:1025632817209

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“…In the North American Arctic (Bodenhorn 1990), Amazon rainforest (Fausto 2007;Politis 2009;Viveiros De Castro 1998), Kalahari Desert (Guenther 2019), and northern (Ingold 1987;2000a;Pedersen 2001;Willerslev 2007) and southern (Bird-David 1990) Asia, anthropologists have documented diverse ideologies and cosmologies sometimes referred to as "animism," which extend personhood to certain non-human animals. In southern Africa, fluid boundaries between shamans in trance and wild animals are documented ethnographically as well as depicted in Later Stone Age rock art (Dowson 2007;Lewis-Williams 1980Lewis-Williams and Dowson 1990;Parkington 2003). Many recent farming groups also used wild animal totems-including eland (Shava), elephant (Nzou), lion (Shumba), baboon (Soko Mukanya), eagle (Hungwe), and crocodile (Mokoena) among others-to identify themselves (Bullock 1931(Bullock , 1950Manyanga and Pangeti 2017).…”

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Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers

Jones,

Kapumha,

Chirikure

et al. 2023

J Archaeol Res

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Perspectives on human–animal relationships are changing in archaeology and related disciplines. Analytical models that distinguish foraging from food production remain popular, but scholars are beginning to recognize greater variability in the ways people understood and engaged with animals in the past. In southern Africa, researchers have observed that wild animals were economically and socially important to recent agropastoral societies. However, archaeological models emphasize cattle keeping and downplay the role of hunting among past farming groups. To address this discrepancy and investigate human–wild animal interactions over the last ~ 2000 years, we examined zooarchaeological data from 54 southern African Iron Age (first and second millennium AD) farming sites. Diversity and taxonomic information highlights how often and what types of animals people hunted. Comparisons with earlier and contemporaneous forager and herder sites in southern and eastern Africa show that hunting for social and economic purposes characterized the spread of farming and rise of complex societies in southern Africa. The long-term cultural integration of wild animals into food-producing societies is unusual from a Global South perspective and warrants reappraisal of forager/farmer dichotomies in non-Western contexts.

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Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers

Jones,

Kapumha,

Chirikure

et al. 2023

J Archaeol Res

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“…Despite the fact that sea levels rose some 120 m between 20,000 and 6,000 years ago, a series of important discoveries around the world have transformed our understanding of ancient human use of marine environments. Several sites associated with early anatomically modern humans (AMH) have been documented in South Africa, as early as 160,000 years ago (Erlandson, 2001;Henshilwood et al, 2001;Klein et al, 2004;Marean et al, 2007;Parkington, 2003). Similarly, Terminal Pleistocene or Early Holocene coastal sites in British Columbia, California, Peru, and Chile have helped reshape models of the peopling of the Americas (Dillehay, 1989;Dixon, 1999;Erlandson et al, 2008a;Fedje and Christensen, 1999).…”

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Shellfish and the Chumash: Marine Invertebrates and Complex Hunter-Gatherers on Late Holocene San Miguel Island, California

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Rick

Willis

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North American Archaeologist

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Marine resources played an important role in fostering high population densities and cultural complexity among North American hunter-gatherers. In California, several researchers have emphasized the relationship among increases in fishing, marine mammal hunting, the development of more efficient watercraft, and increased sociopolitical complexity. Largely absent from discussions of emergent complexity is the changing role of shellfish in human subsistence economies. Analyzing marine shell from 12 Late Holocene sites on San Miguel Island, we illustrate the importance of shellfish in island subsistence economies and the evolution of Chumash complexity. The dietary importance of shellfish protein declined through time, but the density of shellfish remains increased dramatically in Late Holocene archaeological sites, suggesting that shellfish provided an important supplement to the higher yields of finfish and helped fuel growing human populations and sociopolitical complexity.

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Transformation in Ritual

Guenther

2019

Human-Animal Relationships in San and Hunter-Gatherer Cosmology, Volume I

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Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers

Hunting and the Social Lives of Southern Africa’s First Farmers

Shellfish and the Chumash: Marine Invertebrates and Complex Hunter-Gatherers on Late Holocene San Miguel Island, California

Transformation in Ritual

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