222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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The cultural parallels between widely separated but environmentally similar regions are often extraordinary, yet these parallels are discounted by anthropologists on the basis that they ignore a large mass of less similar data. Too often cultural parallels between distant regions have been taken for granted rather than recognized as phenomena that need to be explained. The thesis of Prehistoric... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Settling The Hemisphere; 3: Cultural Development in Nuclear America and the intermeidate area; 4: Apaptation to permissive environments: the forests, the deserts, and the plains; 5: Environmental limitiation on cultural complexity: The pacific coasts, the marginals, and the arctic; 6: Problems and speculations
Biography
Piotr Makowski
