Robert L Bettinger
Robert L Bettinger
The bow more than doubled, likely tripled, the success of individuals bent on killing animal or human targets (Box ). The advent of this revolutionary technology generated different responses in western North America depending on subsistenc...
Sociopolitical complexity and the bow and arrow in the American Southwest [0.03%]
美国西南部的社会政治复杂性和弓箭技术
Todd L VanPool,Michael J OBrien
Todd L VanPool
The evolution of sociopolitical complexity, including heightened relations of cooperation and competition among large nonkin groups, has long been a central focus of anthropological research. Anthropologists suggest any number of variables ...
Sedentism, social change, warfare, and the bow in the ancient Pueblo Southwest [0.03%]
古代普韦布洛西南部的定居、社会变迁、战争和弓箭
Paul F Reed,Phil R Geib
Paul F Reed
In the ancient American Southwest, use of the bow developed relatively rapidly among Pueblo people by the fifth century AD. This new technology replaced the millennia-old atlatl and dart weaponry system. Roughly 150 years later in the AD 60...
George R Milner,George Chaplin,Emily Zavodny
George R Milner
As recently as the 1980s, archeologists focusing on prehistoric eastern North America paid little attention to intergroup conflict. Today the situation is quite different, as indicated by this Special Issue. Archeologists now face three pri...
John H Blitz,Erik S Porth
John H Blitz
Bingham and Souza have presented an evolutionary theory that specifies a causal relationship between the advent of powerful projectile weapons such as the bow and radical rearrangements in social relations and histories. They propose that t...
Introduction: social complexity and the bow in the prehistoric North American record [0.03%]
序章:北美史前记录中的社会复杂性和弓的出现
Paul M Bingham,Joanne Souza,John H Blitz
Paul M Bingham
This Special Issue of Evolutionary Anthropology grew out of a symposium at the 2012 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting in Memphis, Tennessee (April 18-22). The goal of the symposium was to explore what we will argue is one of th...
Cynthia L Chadwell
Cynthia L Chadwell
Katerina Harvati,Vangelis Tourloukis
Katerina Harvati
Daniel A Levitis,Oskar Burger,Laurie Bingaman Lackey
Daniel A Levitis
There persist two widely held but mutually inconsistent views on the evolution of post-fertile lifespan of human females. The first, prevalent within anthropology, sees post-fertile lifespan (PFLS) in the light of adaptive processes, focusi...
Monogamy, strongly bonded groups, and the evolution of human social structure [0.03%]
单配性、紧密结合的群体与人类社会结构的演变
Bernard Chapais
Bernard Chapais
Human social evolution has most often been treated in a piecemeal fashion, with studies focusing on the evolution of specific components of human society such as pair-bonding, cooperative hunting, male provisioning, grandmothering, cooperat...