Gary Feinman
Biographic Data
| ID | 189751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Feinman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Feinman |
| SIGNATURE | FEINMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 409 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Global Dynamics of Inequality (Gini) project: Analysing Archaeological Housing Data
The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the causes and consequences of inequality that are of relevance to contemporary societies globally
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent ideas regarding both predictor and outcomes variables, and by differences of opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse of information d…
Big Gods and big science: Further reflections on theory, data, and analysis
Our target article empirically tested the Big Gods Hypothesis which proposes that beliefs in moralizing supernatural punishment (MSP) contributed to the evolution of socio-political complexity (SPC) in world history. We tested this hypothesis using a suite of measures of MSP, SPC, and other potential evolutionary drivers coded in Seshat: Global History Databank. Our analyses indicate that intensity of warfare and productivity of agriculture were …
Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China
An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
Dietary adaptation during the Longshan period in China: Stable isotope analyses at Liangchengzhen (southeastern Shandong)
Science and Public Debate: A Role for Archaeology in Today's News Media
Late Neolithic Plant Remains from Northern China: Preliminary Results from Liangchengzhen, Shandong
Archeology: The American Southwest and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange . Jonathan E. Ericson and Timothy G. Baugh , eds
Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]
Chichen Itza and Its Hinterland: A world-systems perspective
For too long, Mayanists working in northern Yucatan have retained a focus on the single site. Although a few recent papers have begun to examine this area in regional terms, the world-systems perspective has yet to be applied. In this paper the world-systems framework is used to examine the post-Teotihuacan core center of Chichen Itza and its hinterland. Various lines of information are combined to achieve the fullest possible picture, including …
Mesoamerica after the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700–900 . Richard A. Diehl and Janet Catherine Berlo
Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2
This two-volume monograph is the final report and synthesis of the Valley of Oaxaca Settlement Pattern Project's full-coverage surface survey and makes significant theoretical and methodological contributions to the investigation of social evolution, cultural ecology, and regional analysis.
Prehispanic colonization of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Too Many Types: An Overview of Sedentary Prestate Societies in the Americas
The Mesoamerican World System
Boundaries, scale, and internal organization
A Comment on Steponaitis' Determination of Catchment Productivity
Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I: The Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Central and Southern Parts of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
In this work, the authors interpret archaeological data on roughly 3000 years of human history in the Valley of Oaxaca, from roughly 1500 BC to AD 1500. They integrate information on settlement patterns, political and social organization, artifact distribution, and more
Archaeology: Models and Methods in Regional Exchange . Robert E. Fry
Regional Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
The Valley of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, is one area in which anthropologists are beginning to achieve a picture of the evolution of a whole society on the regional scale. This has been possible because of a two-pronged research strategy involving excavation of living floors by Kent Flannery and his associates, and, concurrently, a field-by-field surface survey directed by Richard E. Blanton. Here the results of the settlement pattern work compl…
The Mesoamerican World System
Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I: The Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Central and Southern Parts of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
In this work, the authors interpret archaeological data on roughly 3000 years of human history in the Valley of Oaxaca, from roughly 1500 BC to AD 1500. They integrate information on settlement patterns, political and social organization, artifact distribution, and more
Late Neolithic Plant Remains from Northern China: Preliminary Results from Liangchengzhen, Shandong
Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]
Chichen Itza and Its Hinterland: A world-systems perspective
For too long, Mayanists working in northern Yucatan have retained a focus on the single site. Although a few recent papers have begun to examine this area in regional terms, the world-systems perspective has yet to be applied. In this paper the world-systems framework is used to examine the post-Teotihuacan core center of Chichen Itza and its hinterland. Various lines of information are combined to achieve the fullest possible picture, including …
Dietary adaptation during the Longshan period in China: Stable isotope analyses at Liangchengzhen (southeastern Shandong)
Regional Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
The Valley of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, is one area in which anthropologists are beginning to achieve a picture of the evolution of a whole society on the regional scale. This has been possible because of a two-pronged research strategy involving excavation of living floors by Kent Flannery and his associates, and, concurrently, a field-by-field surface survey directed by Richard E. Blanton. Here the results of the settlement pattern work compl…
A Comment on Steponaitis' Determination of Catchment Productivity
Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China
The Global Dynamics of Inequality (Gini) project: Analysing Archaeological Housing Data
The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the causes and consequences of inequality that are of relevance to contemporary societies globally
Regional Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
The Valley of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, is one area in which anthropologists are beginning to achieve a picture of the evolution of a whole society on the regional scale. This has been possible because of a two-pronged research strategy involving excavation of living floors by Kent Flannery and his associates, and, concurrently, a field-by-field surface survey directed by Richard E. Blanton. Here the results of the settlement pattern work compl…
Archaeology: Models and Methods in Regional Exchange . Robert E. Fry
Monte Alban's Hinterland, Part I: The Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Central and Southern Parts of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
In this work, the authors interpret archaeological data on roughly 3000 years of human history in the Valley of Oaxaca, from roughly 1500 BC to AD 1500. They integrate information on settlement patterns, political and social organization, artifact distribution, and more
Boundaries, scale, and internal organization
A Comment on Steponaitis' Determination of Catchment Productivity
Too Many Types: An Overview of Sedentary Prestate Societies in the Americas
The Mesoamerican World System
Prehispanic colonization of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Monte Albán's Hinterland, Part II: Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in Tlacolula, Etla, and Ocotlan, the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, Vols. 1 and 2
This two-volume monograph is the final report and synthesis of the Valley of Oaxaca Settlement Pattern Project's full-coverage surface survey and makes significant theoretical and methodological contributions to the investigation of social evolution, cultural ecology, and regional analysis.
Mesoamerica after the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700–900 . Richard A. Diehl and Janet Catherine Berlo
Archeology: The American Southwest and Mesoamerica: Systems of Prehistoric Exchange . Jonathan E. Ericson and Timothy G. Baugh , eds
Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]
Chichen Itza and Its Hinterland: A world-systems perspective
For too long, Mayanists working in northern Yucatan have retained a focus on the single site. Although a few recent papers have begun to examine this area in regional terms, the world-systems perspective has yet to be applied. In this paper the world-systems framework is used to examine the post-Teotihuacan core center of Chichen Itza and its hinterland. Various lines of information are combined to achieve the fullest possible picture, including …
Late Neolithic Plant Remains from Northern China: Preliminary Results from Liangchengzhen, Shandong
Science and Public Debate: A Role for Archaeology in Today's News Media
Dietary adaptation during the Longshan period in China: Stable isotope analyses at Liangchengzhen (southeastern Shandong)
An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent ideas regarding both predictor and outcomes variables, and by differences of opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse of information d…
Big Gods and big science: Further reflections on theory, data, and analysis
Our target article empirically tested the Big Gods Hypothesis which proposes that beliefs in moralizing supernatural punishment (MSP) contributed to the evolution of socio-political complexity (SPC) in world history. We tested this hypothesis using a suite of measures of MSP, SPC, and other potential evolutionary drivers coded in Seshat: Global History Databank. Our analyses indicate that intensity of warfare and productivity of agriculture were …
The Global Dynamics of Inequality (Gini) project: Analysing Archaeological Housing Data
The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the causes and consequences of inequality that are of relevance to contemporary societies globally
Archaeology (15 works) · History (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · History (7 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 works) · Citation (4 works) · Latin American history and culture (4 works)