THE EVOLUTION OF MATERIAL WEALTH-BASED INEQUALITY: THE RECORD OF HOUSEPIT 54, BRIDGE RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
| Autor: | Thomas A. Foor, Ethan Ryan, Ashley Hampton, Matthew J. Walsh, Anna Marie Prentiss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology History inequality Inequality Context (archaeology) media_common.quotation_subject Alternative hypothesis Archaeological record Population 01 natural sciences Bridge (interpersonal) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) evolution 0601 history and archaeology Economic geography education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common education.field_of_study 060102 archaeology Bridge River pithouse village Museology Subsistence agriculture 06 humanities and the arts Processes of change Malthusian ceiling Geography complex hunter-gatherers |
| Zdroj: | Prentiss, A M, Walsh, M, Foor, T A, Hampton, A & Ryan, E 2018, ' The Evolution of Material Wealth-Based Inequality: The Record of Housepit 54, Bridge River, British Columbia ', American Antiquity, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 598-618 . https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2018.56 |
| ISSN: | 2325-5064 0002-7316 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/aaq.2018.56 |
| Popis: | The evolution of material wealth-based inequality is an important topic in archaeological research. While a number of explanatory models have been proposed, rarely have they been adequately tested. A significant challenge to testing such models concerns our ability to define distinct, temporally short-term, residential occupations in the archaeological record. Sites often lack evidence for temporally persistent inequality, or, when present, the palimpsest nature of the deposits often make it difficult to define the processes of change on scales that are fine enough to evaluate nuanced model predictions. In this article, we use the detailed record of Housepit 54 from the Bridge River site, interior British Columbia, to evaluate several alternative hypotheses regarding the evolution of persistent material wealth-based inequality. Results of our analyses indicate that inequality appeared abruptly coincident with a decline in intra-house cooperation associated with population packing and the initiation of periodic subsistence stress. We conclude that persistent inequality in this context was a byproduct of altered social networks linked to a Malthusian transition and ceiling. |
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