Table of Contents

1. Interrogating the alterity of hunter-gatherers in bioarchaeological context: adaptability, transformability and resilience of hunter-gatherers in the past Daniel H. Temple and Christopher M. Stojanowski; 2. Regional continuity and local challenges to resilience among holocene hunter-gatherers of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa Susan Pfeiffer and Lesley Harrington; 3. Hunter-gatherer persistence and demography in Patagonia (Southern South America): the impact of ecological changes during the Pleistocene and Holocene Valeria Bernal, S. Ivan Perez, María Bárbara Postillone and Diego D. Rindel; 4. The success and failure of resilience in the European Mesolithic Rick J. Schulting; 5. Persistence of time: resilience and adaptability in prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers from the inland sea region of Southwestern Honshu, Japan Daniel H. Temple; 6. Biomechanics, habitual activity, and resilience among Southern African hunter-gatherers and herders Michelle E. Cameron and Jay Stock; 7. Biocultural adaptation and resilience in the hunter-gatherers of Lagoa Santa, Central-Eastern Brazil Pedro Da-Gloria and Lucas Bueno; 8. Resiliency among hunter-gatherers in Southern California before and after European colonization: a bioarchaeological perspective Erin E. Bornemann and Lynn H. Gamble; 9. Persistence or pastoralim: the challenges of studying hunter-gatherer resilience in Africa Christopher M. Stojanowski; 10. Ancient mortuary ritual and cultural resilience on the northwest coast of North America Bryn Letham and Gary Coupland; 11. Bioarchaeological evidence for cultural resilience at Point Hope, Alaska: persistence and memory in the ontology of personhood in northern hunter-gatherers Lauryn C. Justice and Daniel H. Temple; 12. Biocultural perspectives on interpersonal violence in the prehistoric San Francisco Bay Area Eric J. Bartelink, Viviana I. Bellifemine, Irina Nechayev, Valerie A. Andrushko, Alan Leventhal and Robert Jurmian; 13. The discovery and rapid demise of the Sadlermiut Charles F. Merbs; 14. When resilience fails: fences, water control, and Aboriginal history in the Western Riverina, Australia Judith Littleton; 15. Models, metaphors, and measures Jane E. Buikstra.

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Explores the variety of ways in which hunter-gatherer societies have responded to external stressors while maintaining their core identity.

About the Author

Daniel H. Temple is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. His research focuses on the life history, diet, mortuary ritual, and evolutionary morphology of hunter-gatherer populations from Northeast Asia and North America, specifically Japan, Siberia, Alaska, and Florida. He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on topics including growth and development, life history theory, enamel microstructures and stress, hunter-gatherer mortuary ritual, ecogeographic adaptation, functional adaptation, biodistance analysis, and prehistoric diet. Christopher M. Stojanowski is a Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University. He has written on diverse topics in anthropology including the bioarchaeology of colonial period peoples of south-eastern America, on early and middle Holocene populations of North Africa, and on dental anthropology and biological distance. His work is bioarchaeological in focus, specializing in the analysis of human remains and dentition. He has authored over sixty peer reviewed articles and chapters and has written three single authored books, one of which, The Bioarchaeology of Ethnogenesis in the Colonial Southeast (2010), was awarded the James Mooney Prize of the Southern Anthropological Society in 2010.