New book from the University of California Press, that may be of interest to
some list members. Published Jan 2006:

Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture
Edited by Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce Winterhalder

DESCRIPTION 

This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and
ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to
explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins
of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical study, and
drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from
eleven locations--including North and South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the
Near East, Africa, and the Pacific--the contributors to this volume examine the
transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding using a broad set
of analytical models and concepts. These include diet breadth, central place
foraging, ideal free distribution, discounting, risk sensitivity, population
ecology, and costly signaling. An introductory chapter both charts the basics
of the theory and notes areas of rapid advance in our understanding of how
human subsistence systems evolve. Two concluding chapters by senior
archaeologists reflect on the potential for human behavioral ecology to explain
domestication and the transition from foraging to farming. 

More info at:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10504.html

Tom Billings