January 2020
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Prehistoric Archaeology Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
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January 2020
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Prehistoric Archaeology Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
December 2015
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Antiquity
After 10 years of pursuing sexy handaxes it is probably time to put these coquettish creatures to bed. Readers wishing to continue the debate are courteously directed to our Project Gallery. How to Cite This Article Link to This Abstract Blog This Article Copy and paste this link Highlight all http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00099440 Citation is provided in standard text and BibTeX formats below. Highlight all BibTeX Format @article{AQY:9438010,author = {Hayden,Brian and Villeneuve,Suzanne},title = {Sex, symmetry and silliness in the bifacial world},journal = {Antiquity},volume = {83},issue = {322},month = {12},year = {2009},issn = {1745-1744},pages = {1163--1170},numpages = {8},doi = {10.1017/S0003598X00099440},URL = {http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0003598X00099440},} Click here for full citation export options. Blog This Article Blog This Article : Highlight all Sex, symmetry and silliness in the bifacial world Brian Hayden and Suzanne Villeneuve (2009). Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue322 , December 2009, pp 1163-1170 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=9438010 The code will display like this Sex, symmetry and silliness in the bifacial world Brian Hayden and Suzanne Villeneuve December 2009 Antiquity, ,Volume83, Issue322, December 2009, pp 1163-1170 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X00099440 Brian Hayden and Suzanne Villeneuve (2009). Sex, symmetry and silliness in the bifacial world. Antiquity, 83, pp 1163-1170. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00099440. //JOU-13771 - ndomingo :: ensure mathjax process will proceed function mathJaxRerender(){ if(!mathJaxScript){ loadMathjax(); loadCookie(); } } function openCommentBox(){ jQuery('.comments-holder-helper').toggleClass("inactive"); jQuery('#commentbox9438010-box').slideToggle(); } jQuery(document).ready(function() { if('' == 'Y'){ openCommentBox(); } if('' == 'Y'){ openTabs(); } //JOU-13771 - ndomingo :: ensure mathjax process will proceed if('N' == 'Y'){ mathJaxRerender(); } }); Copyright Statement Rights and Permissions Privacy Policy Terms of Use Feedback Press Releases
September 2014
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In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an important barometer of cultural change, feasting is at the forefront of theoretical developments in archaeology. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of the practice from its first perceptible prehistoric presence to modern industrial times. This study explores recurring patterns in the dynamics of feasts as well as linkages to other aspects of culture such as food, personhood, cognition, power, politics, and economics. Analyzing detailed ethnographic and archaeological observations from a wide variety of cultures, including Oceania and Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia, Hayden illuminates the role of feasts as an invaluable insight into the social and political structures of past societies.
October 2011
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Annual Review of Anthropology
The study of feasting has gradually emerged from early descriptions and bewilderment to more sophisticated attempts to understand the logic and reasons behind the often lavish displays. We chart the various models that have been, and still are, used by anthropologists and archaeologists to explain this unique human behavior. Acquiring prestige is a popular explanation used by ethnographers, while coping with social conflicts is commonly invoked by archaeologists. However, more practical benefits behind feasts have also been proposed, as well as experiential motivations. Whichever explanation is endorsed, there is widespread agreement that feasts play important roles in establishing social identities and memories, creating political power and inequalities, gender identities, accomplishing work, and developing prestige technologies, possibly including domesticates.
October 2011
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52 Citations
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Beginning with Alexander Marshack's interpretation of engraved lines as lunar calendrical notations, a number of highly controversial claims have been made concerning the possible astronomical significance of Upper Palaeolithic images. These claims range from lunar notations, to solstice observances in caves, to constellation representations. Given the rare nature of artefacts and images that lend themselves to such interpretations, these claims are generally difficult to evaluate on the basis of archaeological data alone. However, comparative ethnology can provide at least a way of assessing the plausibility of such astronomical claims. If the premise is accepted that at least some of the Upper Palaeolithic groups were complex hunter-gatherers, then astronomical observances, or the lack of them, among ethnographic complex hunter-gatherers can help indicate whether astronomical observations were likely to have taken place among Upper Palaeolithic complex hunter-gatherers. A survey of the literature shows that detailed solstice observances were common among complex hunter-gatherers, often associated with the keeping of calendars and the scheduling of major ceremonies. Moreover, aggrandizers in complex hunter-gatherer societies often form ‘secret societies’ in which esoteric astronomical knowledge is developed. The existence of calendrical notations and secluded meeting places for secret-society members are suggested to be at least plausible interpretations for a number of Upper Palaeolithic caves and images.
August 2010
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Who benefits from complexity? Is it the general populace as systems theorists and functionalists would have it, or is it the elites as Marxists would have it? And if the latter, is it the warriors? the priests? the political big men or chiefs? This issue is critical for understanding the origins of socioeconomic inequality, one of the most important theoretical issues in archaeology being discussed today.
... Few historical accounts-in Chinese or another languageof the annual rural pig feast can be found, even up to the present day, although archaeological evidence suggests that the pig has been part of northeastern China cultures for centuries (Kim 1994;Nelson 1998). As in many, and maybe most, traditional feasts, the origin of pig feasts appears to be based in food sharing conventions (Villeneuve 2014). Older farmers describe how in the early years of the Communist era (post-1949), families who could afford to raise pigs invited neighbors to a pig feast upon butchering a pig to share the highly valued meat. ...
September 2014
... Nevertheless, there are two controversial problems with this hypothesis: (i) whether there is a pre-existing "mental template" when stone tools are made; and (ii) whether the degree of symmetry in the handaxe was in lock step with the evolution of hominin cognition. Some scholars argue that handaxe shape tends to become uniform and approximate symmetry simply as a product of the maturity of the bifacial knapping technique (Coventry & Clibbens, 2002;Davidson & Noble, 1993;Hayden & Villeneuve, 2009;McPherron, 2000). Others support a mix of a "mental template" and formalization of socially learned manufacturing procedures that result in the symmetry seen in Acheulean bifaces (Schillinger et al., 2017). ...
December 2015
Antiquity
... The construction of a rondel required ritual and political leadership, yet it could have also embodied a collective character, resembling a secret society (e.g. Hayden & Villeneuve, 2011) or sodality (Mills, 2014), with roots tracing back to a much older past. The role of such organizations in managing the social life of Neolithic villages has been convincingly illustrated through the example of the tell in Çatalhöyük (Hodder, 2021;Mills, 2014;Rosenberg & Rocek, 2019), whose influence on the Central European Neolithic is evident, though still underestimated. ...
October 2011
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
... The idea or concept of feast can be found in many cultures. Feast may be defined as sharing of any special food, either in quality, preparation, or quantity by two or more people not on a daily basis but on special occasions or events (Hayden & Villeneuve 2011). Studies related to food from the perspective of archaeology are built upon the assumptions that food material culture can create social relations and groups; food preferences are not always determined by calories but traditions and cultural constitutions; food as a transformative agent; and the agency nature of meals and dishes in social processes. ...
October 2011
Annual Review of Anthropology
... Konflikte zwischen den sich zunächst in Städten lokal formierenden Gemeinwesen waren ein Hebel für eine extreme Ermächtigung der politischen Eliten und machtvolle staatliche Bürokratien (Sterelny, 2021, S. 139;vgl Turchin, 2016). Ähnliches gilt dort, wo soziale Ungleichheitsstrukturen schon angelegt waren, auch für ökologische Krisen, etwa durch erneut auftretende klimatische Instabilitäten oder andere Veränderungen der natürlichen Umwelt, die besondere, auf komplexe und effiziente Kooperation angewiesene Maßnahmen, wie sie etwa Bewässerungssysteme darstellten, erforderten (Hayden & Villeneuve, 2010). ...
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Zur Evolution der sozialen Ungleichheit
August 2010