Before The Dawn of Everything
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2980938 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Ian Watts (0000-0002-3147-8299, 20 Aristophanous, Athens 105 54, Greece) |
| Ano | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Fascículo | 3-4 |
| Páginas | 233-264 |
| Data de publicação | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Hunter Gatherer Research (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1476-4253 • E-ISSN: 2056-3264 |
| Editora | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/hgr.2022.3 |
| OpenAlex | W4403417931 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 1 |
| Referências citadas | 92 |
The Dawn of Everything ( DoE ) holds that social organisation among our earliest ancestors is likely to have been extraordinarily diverse. Therefore, there can have been no 'original' form of human society. 'Searching for one can only be a matter of myth-making.' This does not bode well for integrating evolutionary and social anthropology, but contributions from social anthropology, with its unique perspective on what it is to be a symbolic species, are rare in modern human 'origins' research, and so deserve close attention. Following a critique of DoE' s framing this contribution inverts the premise of extraordinary diversity. The latest archaeological findings and their interpretation suggest pan-African habitual performance of collective ritual, with a uniform signature of red cosmetic usage, from ~160 ka, around the end of speciation, grounding symbolic culture's first shared fiction(s). DoE marginalised evolutionary theory, the archaeology of our speciation and African hunter-gatherer ethnography. Thereby, it resembles the decried 'sapient paradox' and leaves readers clueless as to how the tea-time 'carnival parade' of political forms of the last 30,000 years arose. By contrast, African hunter-gatherer ritual use of red substances and associated beliefs suggest an ideology of blood at origin, metaphorically linking women's reproduction to men's hunting labour
Art · Astrobiology · Physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History
Hierarchy in the Forest
The Making of the Golden Bough
The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River mouth in South Africa
The transition to foraging for dense and predictable resources and its impact on the evolution of modern humans
Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi
Hunters and gatherers today and reconstruction of the past
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene
The origin of symbolic culture
The Cognition of Homo neanderthalensis and H. sapiens
The Ritual Animal
Cultural Evolution
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology
On stony ground
Processing ochre in the Middle Stone Age
Assessing the Efficacy of Red Ochre as a Prehistoric Hide Tanning Ingredient
Language co-evolved with the rule of law
The Excavation of Mwulu's Cave, Potgietersrust District
Rapid increase in production of symbolic artifacts after 45,000 years ago is not a consequence of taphonomic bias
Kansyore Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers Abandoned the Northeastern Lake Victoria Shoreline during an Arid Period in the Middle Holocene
Pigments from the Middle Palaeolithic levels of Es-Skhul (Mount Carmel, Israel)
A story of colourful diggers and grinders
Ochre in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa
Selection and Heating of Colouring Materials in the Mousterian Level of Es‐skhul ( C . 100 000 Years Bp, Mount Carmel, Israel)
Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo
Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo
The Middle Stone Age of East Africa and the beginnings of regional identity
The Emergence of Habitual Ochre Use in Africa and its Significance for The Development of Ritual Behavior During The Middle Stone Age
The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers
Women's Status in Egalitarian Society
Material conditions and human freedom
The Human Symbolic Revolution
Holocene hunter-fisher-gatherer communities
The gripping nature of ochre
The revolution that wasn't
Putting ochre to the test
The revolution that still isn't
The pigments from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B, Western Cape, South Africa
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II)
Late Stone Age human remains from Ishango (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Ochre use at Olieboomspoort, South Africa
What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun
Those Who Play with Fire
Dance, play, laugh
Before The Dawn of Everything
Hadza gender rituals - epeme and maitoko - considered as counterparts
Egalitarianism made us the symbolic species
La Prohibition de l'Inceste et ses Origines
Essai sur les fondements de la division sexuelle du travail chez les chasseurs-cueilleurs
The Woman with the Zebra's Penis
Egalitarian Societies
Ritual and Symbol in Baka Life History
"The "force in the thing
Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution
Ekila
Laughing when you shouldn't
Farewell to the 'childhood of man
The politics of Eros
Early Evidence for Brilliant Ritualized Display
Zoon Politikon
An Early Case of Color Symbolism
Systematic Pigment Use in the Middle Pleistocene of South-Central Africa
Possible Early Pigment Use in South-Central Africa
On Human Egalitarianism
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
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| Citações por ano | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 1 |