He conducted ethnographic fieldwork amongst modern hunter - gatherer peoples such as the Nunamiut Eskimo , the Navajo , and Australian Aborigines in order to understand the pattern of waste their activities generated .
The term was adapted from middle range theory in anthropological archaeology by Lewis Binford .
Lewis Binford conducted ethnographic fieldwork amongst modern hunter - gatherer peoples such as the Nunamiut Eskimo , the Navajo , and Australian Aborigines in order to understand the pattern of waste their activities generated .
The term was adapted from middle range theory in anthropological archaeology by Lewis Binford .