Native peoples have often been portrayed as natural conservationists, living in “harmony”
with their environment. It is argued that this perspective is a result of an imprecise definition …

Hunting for wild animals is stimulated by the many different human uses of faunal resources,
and these animals constitute important subsistence items in local communities in the …

This paper examines changes in hunting ability across the lifespan for the Ache of eastern
Paraguay. Hunting ability is decomposed into two components—finding prey and probability …

Recent and long‐term sympatries between humans and nonhuman primates (hereafter
primates) are central to the behavioral ecology, conservation, and evolutionary trajectories …

Ethnoarchaeology is the study of relationships between human behavior and its material
consequences in the present. Practitioners hope to establish consistent links between the …

The Emeryville Shellmound is a famous but now destroyed midden once located on the east
shore of San Francisco Bay. Analyses of the fish remains from the stratified late Holocene …

While many studies have examined human impacts on prehistoric environments, few have
explicitly examined how foragers adapt to the changing environmental situations that they …

This chapter reviews the interface between humans and howler monkeys based on
evidence from the archaeological record and the ethnography of contemporary indigenous …

Much ado has been made in recent years about whether indigenous people are
conservationists, noble savages who act as stewards of nature, or whether they are efficient …

Widespread hunting throughout Amazonia threatens the persistence of large primates and
other vertebrates. Most studies have used models of limited validity and restricted spatial …