Research and Development in the Stone Age: Technological Transitions among Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]

Hayden, Brian; Bowdler, Sandra; Butzer, Karl W.; Cohen, Mark Nathan; Druss, Mark; Dunnell, Robert C.; Goodyear, Albert C.; Hardesty, Donald L.; Hassan, Fekri A.; Kamminga, Johan; Lourandos, Harry; Matson, R. G.; Miller, Philip; Mohapatra, G. C.; Persson, Per; Pittioni, Richard; Valoch, Karel; Wymer, John; Yesner, David R.

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“…El estudio de las sociedades cazadoras recolectoras comprende universos diversos, como, por ejemplo, la vinculación de estos grupos humanos con el empleo de los recursos ambientales de manera generalizada o compleja (Hayden 1981), o bien clasificaciones que establecen dentro de una lógica dicotómica la subdivisión en grupos simples o complejos (Keeley 1988). Dada esta amplia gama de posibilidades, se cree que en el estudio del registro rupestre realizado por las sociedades que habitaron en el sistema de Ventania resulta operativo, y por lo tanto oportuno, considerar el abordaje estético como una herramienta de análisis válida, tal como lo propone Thomas Heyd en varios de sus trabajos (Heyd 2003).…”

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Registro De Máscaras en Sierra De La Ventana De La Región Pampeana Argentina: Presentación De Explicaciones Alternativas

Oliva

2013

Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb.

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Registro De Máscaras en Sierra De La Ventana De La Región Pampeana Argentina: Presentación De Explicaciones Alternativas

Oliva

2013

Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb.

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“…In the Levant, however, the Natufian Epipalaeolithic (though usually not the preceding Kebaran and Geometric Kebaran) have come to stand for the same evolutionary threshold between simple hunter-gatherers and farmers as the Mesolithic in some areas of Europe (e.g., Bar-Yosef 1991;Henry 1985;. Some scholars therefore label the Natufian a Mesolithic entity (Clark 1980;Hayden 1993). …”

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The materiality of dung: the manipulation of dung in Neolithic Mediterranean caves

Mlekuž

2009

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IntroductionNeolithic, Copper and Bronze age occupation levels in Mediterranean caves often consist of curious white powdery sediments. They were recently identified as layers of burnt herbivore dung. They represent the remnants of complex manipulations of matter, which includes the burning of dung to create white ash. These sediments pose a number of interesting question, not only on how and why they were produced, but also what meanings are objectified in the materiality of dung and the daily practices associated with it. Overview: burnt animal dungThe pioneering work of Jacques É. Brochier (1991; has demonstrated that mineralized dung residues in archaeological deposits can be identified by the occurrence of spherulites, microscopic crystals of calcium salt and grass phytolits. This leads to the identification of herding strategies and penning practices in Mediterranean caves from the Neolithic onwards. Thus, in the Neolithic, Eneolithic and the Bronze Age, caves were used as pens for domestic animals, mostly sheep and goat. This is further supported by the identification of shed milk teeth often found in stable deposits. However, there is also evidence that caves were probably used simultaneously for domestic activities. Caves were obviously seasonal stations in the system of transhumance (Boschian and Montagnari Kokelj 2000; Mleku∫ 2005;Miracle and Forenbaher 2005).A unique depositional practice identified in many of these caves consisted of the burning of animal dung. This practice can be recognized in layers of either alternating black and white lenses (so called 'layer-

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“…This supposedly led to technological innovations such as grinding stones, nets, and weirs, which lowered handling costs, thus making plants, small game, and fish more economical. 80 However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that grinding stones should not be considered a requisite to the exploitation of nuts and seeds as food. 40 -42,81-83 Fine-grained recovery techniques, taphonomic studies, and biochemical analyses have shown that plants, small game, and fish were regularly exploited much earlier.…”

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Nutritional ecology and diachronic trends in Paleolithic diet and health

Hockett

Haws

2003

Evolutionary Anthropology

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Modern nutritional studies have found that diverse diets are linked to lower infant mortality rates and longer life expectancies in humans. This is primarily because humans require more than fifty essential nutrients for growth and cell maintenance and repair; most of these essential nutrients must come from outside food sources rather than being manufactured by the body itself; and a diversity of food types is required to consume the full suite of essential nutrients necessary for optimal human health. These principles and their related affects on human adaptations and demography are the hallmarks of a theoretical paradigm defined as nutritional ecology. This essay applies concepts derived from nutritional ecology to the study of human evolution. Principles of nutritional ecology are applied to the study of the Middle‐to‐Upper Paleolithic transition in order to broadly illustrate the interpretive ramifications of this approach. At any stage in human evolution, those hominid populations that chose to diversify their subsistence base may have had a selective advantage over competitors who restricted their diet principally to one food type, such as terrestrial mammals.

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Research and Development in the Stone Age: Technological Transitions among Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]

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Registro De Máscaras en Sierra De La Ventana De La Región Pampeana Argentina: Presentación De Explicaciones Alternativas

Registro De Máscaras en Sierra De La Ventana De La Región Pampeana Argentina: Presentación De Explicaciones Alternativas

The materiality of dung: the manipulation of dung in Neolithic Mediterranean caves

Nutritional ecology and diachronic trends in Paleolithic diet and health

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