The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex and Tradition
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex and Tradition
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人类祖先考古学：权力、性与传统
DOI：
10.2307/3034769
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发表时间：
2005
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通讯作者：
S. Shennan
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作者：
J. Steele;S. Shennan
人类的社会生活受到我们认知和情感倾向的限制和定义，这是我们觅食祖先的遗产。但是，重建那些祖先的社会制度和文化传统有多难？文本提供了一个答案，其中考古学家和生物人类学家阐述并展示了他们的重建方法。贡献者使用灵长类动物和现代狩猎采集者的观察来阐明化石和人工记录。专题处理包括群体规模的演变;群体组成和社会纽带的情感结构;两性异形和劳动的性别分工;以及人类文化传统的起源。这本书应该是一个有用的介绍，为先进的本科生和研究人员在考古学和生物人类学的主题。它也可以被心理学、社会学和女权主义研究的工作者用作理解人类社会起源的资源。
Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors? The text provides an answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate their reconstructive methods. Contributors use observations of primates and modern hunter-gatherers to illuminate the fossil and artefactual records. Thematic treatment covers the evolution of group size; group composition and the emotional structure of social bonds; sexual dimorphism and the sexual division of labour; and the origins of human cultural traditions. This book should be a useful introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduates and researchers in archaeology and biological anthropology. It can also be used by workers in psychology, sociology and feminist studies as a resource for understanding human social origins.