The archaeology of human ancestry: power, sex and tradition
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| adam_text | THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
HUMAN ANCESTRY
Power, Sex and Tradition
Edited by James Steele and Stephen Shennan
London and New York
CONTENTS
List of illustrations xiii
List of tables xvi
List of contributors xviii
General editor s preface xxi
Acknowledgements xxiv
Introduction 1
James Steele and Stephen Shennan
Reconstructing hominid social systems: methodological issues 2
The use of archaeological data for reconstructing hominid
social systems 2
The use of ethnographic data for reconstructing hominid
social systems - 4
The use of non-human primate data for reconstructing
hominid social systems 5
Issues in the reconstruction of hominid social systems 9
The sexual division of labour 9
Group size 13
Tie structure 17
The evolution of human cultural traditions 19
Primate cognitive abilities and social learning 20
Mechanisms of social transmission in human groups 23
Modelling the ecological preconditions and evolutionary
dynamics of cultural transmission 27
The archaeological record as a product of cultural learning
processes 31
References 36
PART I: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO HOMINID
SOCIOECOLOGY 43
Editors note 45
1 Finite social space and the evolution of human social
behaviour 47
Robert Foley and Phyllis Lee
vi Contents
Social evolution: a problem of definition 47
Finite social space: a model of social options 49
Finite social space and social evolution 52
Phylogenetic context of human sociality 54
Ecological context of human sociality 57
Life-history theory and a tentative timescale for human
social evolution 61
Conclusions 64
References 64
2 African ape social networks: a blueprint for reconstructing
early hominid social structure 67
Alexandra Maryanski
Introduction 67
A comparative analysis of chimpanzee and gorilla social
structure 69
The social network approach 69
Materials and methods 70
Analysis of tie patterns among chimpanzees and gorillas 71
Early hominid social structure 78
The pioneer institution: kinship 80
The economic institution 81
Summary and conclusions 81
Notes 83
References 84
3 Sexual dimorphism in fossil hominids and its socioecological
implications 91
Henry M McHenry
Australopithecus afarensis 91
Australopithecus africanus 95
Australopithecus boisei 95
Australopithecus robustus 96
Earliest Homo [H habilis and rudolfensis) 96
Early African Homo erectus 97
Neanderthals and early anatomically modern Homo
sapiens 98
Sexual selection and mating system 98
Other correlates to dimorphism 100
Behavioural and ecological correlates of dimorphism in
early hominids 100
Conclusions 102
Acknowledgements 102
References 103
Contents vii
4 On the evolution of temperament and dominance style in
hominid groups 110
James Steele
Dominance style and temperament in non-human primates 110
Pointers to the evolution of dominance style in hominids 113
Sexual dimorphism 113*
Endocrine gland weight scaling 114
Cerebral laterality 120
Speech 121
Stone tools, culture and the evolution of dominance style
in hominid groups 123
Summary 124
Socioecology of dominance style in hominid evolution 124
Acknowledgements - 125
Appendix 126
References 126
PART II: ORIGINS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD 131
Editors note 133
5 The frameworks of early hominid social systems: how
many useful parameters of archaeological evidence can
we isolate? 135
John Cowlett
The framework of ideas 137
Models and simplification 137
Models in the 1950s 141
The Olduvai event 142
Models of hominization 144
The hominid/hominoid framework 144
Social structure as a context 145
Early stages of hominization: bipedalism and other
changes 148
Models of early hominid behaviour in the early Pleistocene 153
Background to the food-sharing model 155
Central place foraging 158
Recent developments in hominid palaeoecology 160
Time for reappraisal? Other approaches: the artefacts 161
An Acheulian example 165
Cultural rule systems in technology 165
Language origins 167
The idea of progression 168
Ideas along and across the timescale: an appraisal 172
Conclusion 173
References 174
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6 Archaeological inference and the explanation of hominid
evolution 184
Mark Lake
Inferring hominid behaviour 185
First-order inference 186
Second-order inference 187
Third-order inference 188
Developing explanations for hominid evolution 189
Third-order inference and evolutionary explanation 190
Mechanisms for behavioural change 192
The simulation of individual learning and cultural learning
in hominid evolution 193
Conclusion 203
Acknowledgements 204
References 204
7 Social learning and cultural tradition: interpreting Early
Palaeolithic technology 207
Steven Mithen
Introduction 207
Tradition, adaptation and modern technology 208
Domain-specific intelligence and early technology , 209
Social learning and tool-making 212
Social learning among early hominids 215
Group size, social interaction and social learning 216
Group size and industrial variability 218
Evaluating the model: hominid group size during the Early
Palaeolithic 218
Group size and neocortex ratio: the Oldowan and
Acheulian 219
Group size and palaeoenvironments: the Acheulian and
Clactonian 220
Conclusion 223
References 224
8 On predicting hominid group sizes 230
James Steele
Introduction 230
How confidently can we predict cortex ratios from
endocranial capacity data? 231
How confidently can we use the Reduced Major Axis line
for predicting group size from cortex ratios? 242
What other methods exist for deriving causal models of
the relationships between anatomical and behavioural
variables in living taxa? 243
Contents ix
Conclusions regarding the prediction models 247
Towards archaeological tests of hominid group size
predictions 248
Acknowledgements 250
References 250
9 Making tracks: hominid networks and the evolution of the
social landscape 253
Clive Gamble
Introduction 253
The local hominid network (LMN) 254
Scale 256
Discussion 257
Territorial analysis: boundaries, perception and
environments 257
Off-site approaches: paths, tracks and places 258
Resource transport hypothesis 259
The social landscape (SL) 260
Scale 261
Discussion 262
Demographic magic numbers : groups and spatial
knowledge 263
Dispersal and larger-scale social units 264
Time, materials and memory 266
Conclusion: social evolution in the Palaeolithic 268
Acknowledgements 272
References 272
PART III: THE SEXUAL DIVISION OF LABOUR IN MODERN
HUMAN FORAGING SOCIETIES 279
Editors note 281
10 Foraging differences between men and women:
behavioural ecology of the sexual division of labour 283
Kristen Hawkes
Human evolution 284
Behavioural ecology 285
Sex differences 286
Other primates 287
Hunter-gatherers 289
Women s foraging 290
Trade-offs between foraging and child care 290
Individual vs team foraging rates 291
Trade-offs between childbearing and feeding and
caring for grandchildren 292
x Contents
Men s foraging 293
The broad pattern of variation 296
Acknowledgements 298
Notes 298
References 299
11 Female strategies and collective behaviour the archaeology
of earliest Homo sapiens sapiens 306
Camilla Power and Ian Watts
Costs of encephalization 306
Human female reproductive physiology 307
The problem of menstrual bleeding 309
Menstrual bleeding as a signal 309
Deceptive sexual signalling 311
Proto-symbolic behaviour and the origins of a ritual
tradition 312
Knight s sex-strike theory 313
Testing the sham menstruation/sex-strike model 314
Pigments in the archaeological record 314
Competing hypotheses 317
Sex-strike theory and ethnographic traditions of
female inviolability 319
Pigment use among Khoisan hunter-gatherers 320
Hunting, sex, menstrual observances and lunar periodicity 321
Wrong sex, wrong species 323
Conclusion 324
Acknowledgements 324
References 325
12 Darwinism and collective representations 331
Chris Knight
Defining symbolism 331
Primate communication and human speech 333
Deception: individual and collective 334
Origins of the sexual division of labour 335
The symbolic revolution 338
Evolutionary conditions of displaced reference 340
The human revolution 341
Testing the model 342
References 343
13 Their commonwealths are not as we supposed: sex,
gender and material culture in human evolution 347
Paul Graves-Brown
Introduction 347
Contents xi
One man s meat is another woman s vegetable 349
Share and share alike? Complementarity as a force in
human evolution 351
Possession 352
Material culture as the medium of joint action 353
Conclusions 357
Acknowledgements 358
References 358
PART IV: COGNITION AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS IN
MODERN HUMAN SOCIETIES 361
Editors note 363
14 Social inequality and the transmission of cultural traditions
in forager societies 365
Stephen Shennan
Cultural traditions 366
Egalitarianism and authority in forager societies 366
Ritual and inequality in forager societies: some examples 369
Authority and cultural stability 371
Conclusion 375
Acknowledgements 377
References 377
15 On the evolution of language and kinship 380
Robin Dunbar
Why did language evolve? 381
How do we use language? 381
Why did language evolve? 382
Some further evidence 386
When did language evolve? 387
Group size and kinship structure 389
Conclusions 394
References 395
16 A socio-mental bimodality: a pre-hominid inheritance 397
Michael Chance
Introduction to the two modes 397
The agonic social mode 397
The hedonic social mode 397
Supporting evidence for the two modes : a review 399
Agonic mode in non-human primates 399
Hedonic mode in non-human primates 400
Coextensive evidence of the two modes in non-human
primates 401
xii Contents
Agonic mode in humans 402
Hedonic mode in humans 402
Stability of the hedonic mode in humans in hunter-
gatherer societies 403
Evidence of the two modes in industrial societies 405
Small group research 405
Studies of children s social behaviour 406
Psychiatric studies 409
The phylogenetic increase in exploratory variability 410
Manipulative creativity 410
Curiosity and exploring 412
Attentional interruption 413
Interruption of arousal control 413
Neocortical evolution and creativity in primates 414
Conclusion 416
Acknowledgements 417
References 417
17 Social interaction and viral phenomena 420
Ben Cullen
Introduction 420
Why we need a Darwinian metaphysic for cultural process 422
Social interaction and the spread of cultural phenomena 424
Culturally reproduced entities as viral phenomena 426
The domestic behemoth 427
Conclusion 429
Acknowledgements 430
References 430
Index 434
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