Table of Contents

Chapter 1. How To Calculate Optimal Diet Breadth

Chapter 2. Optimal Foraging with Constraints: Linear Programming

Chapter 3. Front- and Back-Loaded Resources: Caching

Chapter 4. Technological Investment

Chapter 5. Field Processing II

Appendices

About the Author

Robert L. Bettinger, University of California, Davis, Davis, California

Reviews

This book would make an excellent accompaniment to many anthropology and archaeology courses, both at high school and college levels. [...] There is a lot of well-written material crammed into this little book! I highly recommend it for anyone interested not only directly with hunter-gatherer research, but for anyone who wonders how-we-know what we think we know about ancient day-to-day life. ' -- Bob Wishoff The Dirt Brothers (http://dirtbrothers.org/) 2010 This book is the first of its kind to provide a suite of tools applicable to many ethnographic and archaeological foraging problems. Anyone who considers themselves involved in human behavioral ecology should work through this book. It is certainly required for any student of the discipline, and as it finds its way into the classroom and onto the desks of practitioners, it is sure to become a classic.' -- Brian F. Codding, Stanford University California Archaeology 2.2 December 2010 ...could be used well as an adjunct or ancillary text for a number of different courses in quantitative methods, hunter-gatherers, or foraging economy...succeeds overall very well and very nicely in what it aims to do.' -- Robert Whallon, University of Michigan Journal of Anthropological Research 2010, Volume 66 ...an excellent primer on a group of models that, though not new, played an important role in the development of hunter-gatherer and ecological studies in anthropology that should be understood by all students. The examples, sample problems, and touch of humor as the models are explained make the book ideal for use in the classroom with either advanced undergraduates, graduate students, or for anyone wishing for a quick reminder of the match behind the models.' -- Susan K. Harris American Antiquity 76(1) 2011 ...useful for graduate seminars to teach details of how foraging societies maximize returns in manipulating the variability in resources of their exploitation territories.' -- Andrew B. Smith Journal of Human Evolution (Book Review Blog) October 2010 The volume is comparatively inexpensive for an academic book and anyone with a serious interest in hunter-gatherers, prehistoric subsistence, and resource provisioning will want to own a copy.' -- Mark E. Basgall, California State University Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 2012