The World Until Yesterday

Aboriginal Australians, 14, 26 fig., 156, 228, plate 2

elders, 214, 230

food scarcity and storage, 309 table, 315

health, 432–33, 439 table, 446

information sources, 477–78

languages, 380, 381, 384–85, 397–98, 406

See also specific peoples

accidents, 30, 245, 278–83, 279 table

avoidance and vigilance, 283–86

causes, 278–83, 279 table

See also dangers; risk

Ache Indians, 14, 27 fig., 51, 292, 456, plate 10

children, 178, 199, 286

elders, 212, 214, 215, 216

environmental hazards, 278, 279 table, 280, 281, 285–86

food scarcity, 301

violence, 286, 290

advertising, age and, 226, plates 23, 24

affluence, 116–17

disease and, 412–13, 430, 432, 433, 436, 439 table, 440

religion and, 354, 368

Africa and African peoples

diabetes, 433, 438 table, 450

language diversity, 371, 398

map, 26 fig.

warfare, 144, 151–52

See also specific groups

age cohorts

among children, 201

ratio of elderly to youth, 231–32

aggregation and dispersal, 291, 310, 315–16

agriculture. See farming

Agta people, 26 fig., 177, 279 table, 292, plate 3

trade, 66, 70, 72, 75

Ainu people, 15, 26 fig., 42, 44

food storage, 309 table, 310, 311

Aka Pygmies, 26 fig., 55, plates 8, 20

child autonomy, 197, 199

child care, 187, 188, 193, plate 8

child punishment, 194, 195

environmental hazards, 278, 279 table

weaning, 181

Alaska North Slope Inuit, 27 fig., 68 table, 71

Alaskan languages, 397, 398, 408, plate 47

Albertson, Mike, 113

Albigensian Manichaeans, 363, 364

alliances, 74–75, 90–91, 116, 291–92

treachery, 137–38, 290–91

warfare and, 120, 141–42, 143

allo-parenting, 187–90, 208

Alzheimer’s disease, 392–95

Amazonia, 18, 199, 385–86

See also specific peoples

ambushes, 120, 122, 137, 141, 144

American Civil War, 145

American Museum of Natural History, 57

American peoples, map, 27 fig.

See also specific regions, countries, and peoples

Anasazi Indian sites, 135–36

Andaman Islanders, 15, 26 fig., 55, 139, 444 table, plate 4

children, 189, 194

trade, 65, 67, 68 table

Andean peoples

field scattering, 304–6, 338–39

food storage, 309 table, 311

language diversity and loss, 380, 401

Anderson, Robin, First Contact, 57, 58

animal domestication, 19, 295

See also herding societies; livestock

animals

animal cognition, 337, 351

dangerous animals, 199, 200, 271, 279 table, 280, 282–83, 285, 286, plate 43

infectious diseases and, 295, 297

rearing of animal young, 183, 186

thrifty-gene experiments, 446–47

warlike animals, 154–57

See also livestock; specific animals

animism, 338

Apache Indians, 144, 166

Arab countries, diabetes in, 433, 438 table, 450

Arabic language, 372, 401

Aranda Aborigines, 228

Araucanian Indians, 144, 228

archaeological evidence, 481

for trade, 60, 64

for warfare, 134–36, 150, 152

Archbold expedition, 57, 119

Archbold, Richard, 57

Arctic and Arctic peoples, 14, 214, 311, 381

maps, 26 fig., 27 fig.

See also specific groups

arrow poisons, 281

art, 136, 340, plate 25

Asia and Asian peoples

diabetes, 430, 433, 438–39 table, 440

filial piety, 221