Twenty. An Ecological Model for the Emergence of Institutionalized Social Hierarchies on California’s Northern Channel Islands
Twenty. An Ecological Model for the Emergence of Institutionalized Social Hierarchies on California’s Northern Channel Islands
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二十、加州北部海峡群岛制度化社会等级制度出现的生态模型
DOI:
10.1525/9780520943360-021
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发表时间:
2009
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56.9
通讯作者:
J. Erlandson
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作者:
D. Kennett;B. Winterhalder;J. Bartruff;J. Erlandson
Tl\X/ENTY An Ecological Model for the Emergence of Institutionalized Social Hierarchies qon California’s Northern Channel Islands Douglas]. Kennett, Bruce Winterhaldergjacob Bartruflf - and_/on A/I. Erlandson 0 N E O F T H E central questions in anthro- pological archaeology is how and why insti- tutionalized social hierarchies evident in ranked societies and chiefdoms developed indepen- dently i.n multiple locations around the world during the Holocene (Feinman and Manzanjlla zooo; Flannery I998)._ Status competition and social inequality exist in all human groups, re- gardless of size or mode of production (Fried I967; Boehm zooo; Diehl 2.000). However, ar- chaeological evidence for significant and institu- tionalized intragroup differences in status and wealth are confined to the last I3,ooo years, well after the first evidence for anatomically modern humans in Afiica (ca. 150,000 years ago) and their subsequent appearance throughout much of the Old and New Worlds (Klein 2.004). The preponderance of archaeological evidence sug- gests that for the majority of human history groups remained small, occupied relatively large territories at low. densities, and moved periodi- cally to adapt to spatial and temporal fluctuations ir1 resources. The record also indicates that group fissioning, environmental infilling, and emigra- tion to diverse habitats were generally favored over localized increases in group size and density or other forms of intensification. Under these conditions, institutionalized hereditary leader- ship and significant differences in status and wealth rarely emerged or persisted. Archaeological evidence for ranked societies is often found in conjunction with clear indications of localized population aggregation, economic intensification, and territorial circumscription (Blake and Clark 1999; Cameiro 1970; Clark and Blalce I994; Hayden I98I). In some instances, ranking follows heightened commitrnent to agri- culture (Price and Gebauer 1995), but similar de- velopments occurred among hunter-gatherers in areas where wild resources are concentrated, such as in marine and other aquatic habitats (Erlandson 2.001; Kennett 2oo5; Palsson I988; Yesner 1980). ‘In these contexts, certain group members were able to acquire greater wealth and status by (I) manipulating economic, social, and political relationships to their own benefit (Earle 1987); (2.) controlling the flow'of exotic goods used to signal status (Flannery I972) ,' (3) monop- olizing the labor of other group members (Earle I987; Arnold 2.ooI); and (4) creating ideologies 397