Hunting and Gathering: An international Conference.

[Jacques Cinq-Mars]

All,

The following should be of interest to people who may wish to find out more about present day hunting and gathering studies. If one looks hard enough, one will find a number of papers that are eminently relevant to various, ongoing palaeoanthropological discourses/speculations.

Jacques Cinq-Mars

Proceedings of the International & Interdisciplinary Hunter gatherer Conference in Edinburgh 2002 – ChaGS.

Click HERE for the Abstracts and Papers.

[André Miller]

Thanks, for that link. The contents of many papers are very useful for many of us, who are concerned with the topics of the hunters/gatherers-foragers. Beyond that International Conference, I've noticed a lot of theorical approaches on the subject, but less pragmatic (practical) approaches to resolve many questions about settlements patterns of the hunters-gatherers.
By the way, on this subject of practical approaches, for a decade, now, the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) are still a new approach and critized method, as I saw and heard at the SAA Annual Meeting held in Montreal at the eve of April 2004, and elsewhere in discussions held in Universities.
For the comprehension of this phenomena, any of you have ideas about why this application (GIS) are still in birth of it use ?
Anyone have something, recently published on hunters-gatherers
and the use of a GIS within the theory of Optimal Foraging Strategies in settlements paterns ?

Thanks again, for the usefull link on this topic and the reply for those questions arise above.