Over five decades, a series of spontaneously organized conferences brought together a global array of specialists on hunting and gathering societies and became known as CHAGS. The series has brought together in roughly equal measure, archaeologists, social anthropologists, human evolutionists, and activists concerned about the fate and future of foraging peoples.
The ultimate origin of the CHAGS series of conferences dates to the mid-1960s when Irven DeVore and Richard Lee organized the 1966 “Man the Hunter” Conference at the University of Chicago, resulting in the 1968 book of the same name (Lee and DeVore 1968). The book was successful in launching an era of renewed interest in the anthropology of hunters and gatherers. Despite the title, a major thesis of the book was to emphasize the vital and hitherto underestimated importance of women’s work in hunter-gatherer societies and in human evolution overall, the ethnographic evidence for which amplifies and augments the archaeological...
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Further Reading
Lee, Richard B., and Richard Daly, eds. 2004. The Cambridge encyclopedia of hunters and gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Clare, ed. 2014. Encyclopedia of global archeology. Heidelberg: Springer.
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Lee, R.B. (2020). Conferences on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS). In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_987
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