ABSTRACT
Human hunting is made possible by tools, but it is far more than a technique or even a variety of techniques. It is a way of life, and the success of this adaptation has dominated the course of human evolution for hundreds of thousands of years. Perhaps the importance of the hunting way of life in producing man is best shown by the length of time hunting has dominated human history. During most of human history, water must have been a major physical and psychological barrier and the inability to cope with water is shown in the archeological record by the absence of remains offish, shellfish, or any object that required going deeply into water or using boats. Levi-Strauss urged that social anthropologists study the world view of hunters, and, perhaps surprisingly, some of the major aspects of world view can be traced from the archeological record.
