Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia (Paperback)

Kathleen D Morrison; Laura L Junker
Cambridge University Press
9780521016360
0-521-01636-3

Specialized forager-traders have lived alongside and in exchange relationships with agriculturalists for many thousands of years in South and Southeast Asia. Here is a series of representative case-studies.

read more…

that pertain to a current archaeological debate. The issue concerns the extent to which historical foraging populations are to be understood as specialized adaptations to a complex economically diverse environment, rather than as throw-backs to a Paleolithic way of life.