Waste Management in Hunter-Gatherer Communities

Filip Havlíček

doi:10.1515/jlecol-2015-0008

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Waste Management in Hunter-Gatherer Communities

Journal of Landscape Ecology

Volume 8 (2015): Issue 2 (November 2015)

By: Filip Havlíček

Open Access

|Nov 2015

Abstract

This article describes examples of material and waste management with a focus on select Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic sites. It examines the structuring of space and landscape from the perspective of waste management as a certain need of natural human behavior. The article touches on the concept of purity and on defining the creation of waste.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2015-0008 | Journal eISSN: 1805-4196 | Journal ISSN: 1803-2427

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Language: English

Page range: 47 - 59

Submitted on: Jun 22, 2015

Accepted on: Oct 12, 2015

Published on: Nov 26, 2015

Published by: Czech Society for Landscape Ecology

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

Waste,

Paleolithic,

Mesolithic,

Purity,

Hunters,

Gatherers,

Landscape,

Environmental history

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