Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
ch 4: This chapter introduces a new approach to investigating “how questions” about prehistoric human population movements. Rather than speculating about specific population movement routes, “survival archaeology” asks how prehistoric humans solved essential survival problems as they moved to and settled in new habitats. Ethnographic studies of preindustrial humans as well as the modern-day wilderness survival and “bushcraft” literature shed light on what these ancestral survival skills were. The chapter argues that humans overcame prehistoric survival challenges by using complex combinations of ancestral survival skills. It closes by proposing some reasonable assumptions about how earlier humans used those skills.
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