This seminar course will focus on issues of method and theory applicable to the archaeology of hunter-gatherers in all geographic regions and time periods. "Hunter-gatherers" (a.k.a. foragers, gatherer-hunters, hunter-fisher-gatherers, etc.) collectively represent a huge proportion of the human past, and a shared aspect of the ancestry of all modern people. Following a brief survey of general issues such as variability in ethnographically-described societies, and the use of analogy in archaeology, the course will focus on recent scholarship across a range of aspects of hunter-gatherer societies, including (but not limited to) social organization, interaction, world view, gender roles, and economic organization.