A Site devoted to students, colleagues and anyone avidly seeking to understand hunter-gatherers.
Foraging is our deep heritage as an evolved species. The foragers still living among us are among the most fascinating of the diverse peoples that anthropologists have experienced and documented in ethnographic monographs. Whether explicitly recognized or not, conventional European views of hunter-gatherers persistently inform the social theories that attempt to explain the broadest features of human history and nature, our history and nature. Even in the contemporary market-industrial and information economy, we continue to replicate ancestral foraging behavior in a variety of our daily activities. The ancestors of all humans were foragers and all of us today are foragers only once removed, despite living in a world that is quite alien, for the most part, to the more evident features of hunter-gatherer lifeways.
In short, this is about us, as well as them.
The site also is undertaken as a tribute, celebrating the amazing knowledge of environment and skill in its use evidenced by foragers, ancient, recent and contemporary.
Please look around. The site features hunter-gatherer research by myself, colleagues, and former students & postdocs.