Author: Kathleen D. Morrison<br />File Type: pdf<br />Specialized forager-traders have lived alongside and in exchange relationships with agriculturalists for many thousands of years in South and Southeast Asia. Here is a series of representative case-studies that pertain to a current archaeological debate. The issue concerns the extent to which historical foraging populations are to be understood as specialized adaptations to a complex economically diverse environment, rather than as throw-backs to a Paleolithic way of life.ReviewAn excellent overview of the prehistory of South and Southeast Asia and the long history of contact between foragers and agriculturalists in these areas...the general themes of long-term histories and changing adaptations in this volume are very relevant from a global perspective including North american Prehistory. Canadian Journal of Archaeology Book DescriptionSpecialised forager-traders have lived alongside and in exchange relationships with agriculturalists for many thousands of years in South and Southeast Asia. The book offers a series of representative case-studies, and will be of particular interest in light of a current debate about the extent to which historical foraging populations must be understood as specialised adaptations to a complex economically diverse environment rather than as a throw-back to a Palaeolithic way of life.