Costly signalling in archaeology

The evolutionary analysis of human behaviour is a broad arena of social science research encompassing anthropological archaeology. Despite its relevance and success in building understanding of pas

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• Why hunt? Why gather? Why share? Hadza assessments of foraging and food-sharing motive

  Open Access•D N E Stibbard-Hawkes, K M Smith et al.•Evolution and Human Behavior•2022

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• Envisioning a Western Clovis Ritual Complex

  Mark Q Sutton•PaleoAmerica•2021

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• Costly Signaling and Windmill-Building

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• What’s New in Applications of Evolutionary Theory to the Zooarchaeological Record of Hunter-Gatherers

  Open Access•K D Lupo•Journal of Archaeological Research•2025

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• Legacy archaeology

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• Cognitive affordances of South Scandinavian Mesolithic portable art as inferred from complexity and entropy measures

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• Stylistic variability in bone tools from the Low Paraná wetland. Late Holocene, Argentina

  Open Access•N Buc•Journal of Anthropological…•2019

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• The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art

  Open Access•D Garate•Journal of Archaeological Method…•2025

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• A Visual Method to Compare the Quality and Complexity of Archaeological Textiles

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• Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity

  Open Access•Cesar Fortes‐lima, Cesar Fortes-Lima et al.•Africa, the Cradle of Human…•2021

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• Stone lines and burnt bones

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• Problematizing 'alliance' in anthropological archaeology

  Open Access•Elizabeth Arkush, P Roscoe et al.•Journal of Anthropological…•2025

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• Costly signaling, cost shifting, and the Maya Classic-Postclassic transition

  Open Access•Kevin R Schwarz, Kevin Schwarz•Journal of Anthropological…•2023

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• Costly signaling and torch fishing on Ifaluk atoll

  Open Access•Richard Sosis•Evolution and Human Behavior•2000

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• The Bounds of Reason

  Herbert Gintis•The bounds of reason•2014

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• Biological signals as handicaps

  Open Access•Alan Grafen•Journal of Theoretical Biology•1990

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• The benefits of costly signaling

  Elizabeth A Smith•Behavioral Ecology•2003

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• Mate selection—A selection for a handicap

  Open Access•Amotz Zahavi•Journal of Theoretical Biology•1975

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• The hunting handicap

  Open Access•R B Bird, E A Smith et al.•Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology•2001

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• The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion

  Open Access•J Henrich•Evolution and Human Behavior•2009

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• The Handicap Principle

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• In the eye (and ears) of the beholder

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• Signaling, solidarity, and the sacred

  Open Access•R Sosis, Candace Alcorta et al.•Evolutionary Anthropology Issues…•2003

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• Showing off, handicap signaling, and the evolution of men's work

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• Finding class in the glass

  Open Access•Daniel E Pierce•Journal of Anthropological…•2017

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• Pilgrimage as costly signal

  Open Access•J Kantner, Kevin J Vaughn•Journal of Anthropological…•2012

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• Landscape Monuments and Political Competition in Late Bronze Age Anatolia

  C Glatz, Aimée M Plourde•Bulletin of the American Schools…•2011

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• A Comparison of Niche Construction Theory and Diet Breadth Models as Explanatory Frameworks for the Initial Domestication of Plants and Animals

  Open Access•B D Smith•Journal of Archaeological Research•2015

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• Costly Signaling and the Ascendance of No-Can-Do Archaeology

  Open Access•Kelly Mcguire, Kelly R Mcguire et al.•American Antiquity•2007

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• The Handicap Principle Is an Artifact

  Open Access•Simon M Huttegger, Justin P Bruner et al.•Philosophy of Science•2015

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• Job Market Signaling

  Michael Spence•The Quarterly Journal of Economics•1973

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• Cooperation and Commune Longevity

  Open Access•R Sosis, Eric R Bressler•Cross-Cultural Research•2003

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• Social Evolution Today

  Open Access•Shennan•Journal of World Prehistory•2011

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• Conspicuous Consumption as Wasteful Advertising

  Open Access•Fraser D Neiman, Fraser Neiman•Archeological Papers of the…•1997

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• Discerning devotion

  Open Access•Eleanor A Power•Evolution and Human Behavior•2016

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• Costly signaling, ritual and cooperation

  Open Access•M Soler•Evolution and Human Behavior•2012

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• Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success

  Open Access•E A Smith•Human Nature•2004

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• Why aren't we all hutterites

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• The evolution of magnanimity

  Open Access•James L Boone•Human Nature•1998

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• The Origins of Prestige Goods as Honest Signals of Skill and Knowledge

  Open Access•Aimée M Plourde•Human Nature•2008

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• The Bounds of Reason

  Marcel Herbst•The European Legacy•2013

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• The application of animal signaling theory to human phenomena

  Open Access•L Cronk•Social Science Information•2005

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• Implications of Human Behavioral Ecology for Understandign Complex Human Behavior

  J Kantner•Journal of Anthropological Research•2010

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• Re-Thinking Great Basin Foragers

  Open Access•Kelly Mcguire, Kelly R Mcguire et al.•American Antiquity•2005

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• Man the Showoff? Or the Ascendance of a Just-so-Story

  Open Access•B F Codding, T L Jones•American Antiquity•2007

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• Showing off, Foraging Models, and the Ascendance of Large-Game Hunting in the California Middle Archaic

  Open Access•J M Broughton, Frank E Bayham•American Antiquity•2003

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• The Ascendance of Hunting during the California Middle Archaic

  Open Access•William R Hildebrandt, Kelly Mcguire et al.•American Antiquity•2002

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• Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital

  R B Bird, E A Smith•Current Anthropology•2005

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