A continent of hunter-gatherers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11955547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Barker (0000-0002-6008-6411, University of Southern Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 305-306 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-2417 • E-ISSN: 2470-0363 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03122417.2021.1991385 |
| OpenAlex | W3212708382 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 1 |
In the popular Western imagination the nineteenth century unilineal social evolutionary theories of Tylor, Morgan and Spencer are often still commonly held in which ‘hunter-gatherer’ is essentially a metaphor for primitive in which – to quote Hobbes – life was ‘... nasty brutish and short’. The idea that hunters and gatherers lived a perilous existence – eking out a living, teetering on the brink of existence, desperately seeking the next meal – is a powerful trope in the Western imagination with the idea that it is only when we became farmers that we truly ‘progressed.’
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| Unique citing works | 34 |
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| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |