The Djief Hunters. 26,000 Years of Rainforest Exploitation on the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia

PASVEER, Juliette M.

Verlag: A.A. Balkema Publishers, Leiden, 2004

Leiden, A.A. Balkema Publishers, 2004. Small quarto, xxii, 424; [3] (publisher's advertisements) pages with numerous figures and tables plus a colour plates. Colour-pictorial papered boards a little scuffed; spine lightly sunned; front free endpaper slightly cockled; a very good copy. With the ownership label, and colour pictorial bookplate of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). 'Two prehistoric cave sites on the Bird's Head of western New Guinea provide a detailed narrative of 26,000 years of human occupation . a unique perspective on sustainable hunting in prehistory and provides intriguing insights into hunter-gatherer subsistence, tool manufacturing and use, the changing intensity of occupation of the sites, and environmental exploitation from Late Pleistocene times onwards in a lowland tropical region. It forms an important contribution to the current debate on the possibilities of human occupation of tropical rainforest before the advent of agriculture' (rear cover). Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, Volume 17. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 133225

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Titel: The Djief Hunters. 26,000 Years of ...
Verlag: A.A. Balkema Publishers, Leiden
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: First Edition.