Description: Explores the question of how information is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology to open discussion, and identify common ground on which build future research.
Brief description: Robert Whallon is Curator of European Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology and professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan. William A. Lovis is professor of anthropology and Curator of Anthropology at the Michigan State University Museum. Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of geography and adjunct professor of anthropology at Michigan State University.