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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ancestors | |
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| Our Ancient Heritage | |
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| Our Unique Heritage | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| The Australopithecines and Their Kin | |
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| Man the Hunter, Woman the Gatherer | |
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| Bones, Butchery, and the Scavenging Hypothesis | |
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| A Closer Look at the Fossil Record | |
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| History in the Body: Evolutionary Anatomy and Molecular Markers | |
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| Cooking | |
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| Foraging | |
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| The Upper Paleolithic Revolution? | |
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| The Late Pleistocene World | |
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| New Tools, New Tactics: The Food Quest in the Late Pleistocene | |
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| Farmers | |
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| The Questions | |
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| The Natural History of Agriculture | |
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| The Human Factor: Decisions and Revisions | |
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| Better Living through Chemistry | |
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| Agriculture: Adaptation, Strategy, and Tradition | |
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| Hunger | |
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| Food Supply in a Changing Environment | |
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| Hunger in Nature | |
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| Hunger and Human Societies | |
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| Fighting Hunger: Culture and Creativity | |
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| Abundance | |
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| Abundance in Nature | |
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| Surplus, Sharing, and Human Societies | |
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| The Uses of Abundance | |
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| Abundance, Diet, and Health: The Effects of Social Inequality | |
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| Beyond Storage and Sharing: Surplus as Symbol | |
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| Contacts | |
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| Acceptance and Dispersal of Novel Foods | |
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| The Spread of Agriculture in Prehistoric Europe | |
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| Eating, Drinking, and Roman Expansion | |
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| Peaches, Cowpeas, Melons, and Hogs: Old World Foods in Southeastern North America | |
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| The Global Reach of Foodways | |
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| Extinctions | |
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| Man versus Mammoth | |
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| Invasion of the Island Snatchers | |
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| Firestarters | |
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| Chewing the Scenery | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Nostalgia for the Pleistocene | |
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| Hunger on a Crowded Planet | |
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| The Conservation Conundrum | |
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| Food, Prehistory, and Human Nature | |
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| Notes | |
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| References Cited | |
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| Index | |