House Societies among Coastal Hunter-Gatherers
A Case Study of Stone Age Ostrobothnia, Finland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6095481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Vaneeckhout (University of Oulu, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 12-25 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00293652.2010.499003 |
| OpenAlex | W1974928419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 16 |
In this article I discuss a concept that can be useful for cross-scale comparative research on the origin and evolution of social inequality. Lévi-Strauss' ‘House Society’ concept is theoretically and methodologically useful because of its open and diachronic character. House Societies, used as a framework for explanation, allow comparative research across large temporal and spatial scales. I apply the House Society – adaptive cycle model to the complex hunter-gatherer context from Stone Age Ostrobothnia, Finland. Population aggregation and increased population density, due to environmental circumscription around 6500–6000 cal. bp led to increasing social differences between Houses in Ostrobothnian communities. In the long run, we find a core of large, successful Houses and a second group of smaller less successful Houses. By the end of Stone Age, c. 4000 cal. bp, increasing institutionalization of social differences resulted in population dispersal and a weakened position for Ostrobothnian House Societies in relation to larger entities (trade, exchange)
Archaeology · Biological dispersal · Character (mathematics · Context (archaeology · Economic geography · Ethnology · Geography · Hunter-gatherer · Population · Social organization · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Social Complexity in the Mid-Holocene Northeastern Bothnian Gulf
From Tents to Pit Houses
Paleoshorelines and prehistory on the eastern Bothnian Bay coast (Finland)
Human ecodynamics in the north-west coast of Finland 10,000–2000 years ago
Sedentary people or short time events? High resolution radiocarbon chronology from a Late Mesolithic dwelling site in Western Norway
Highly productive fishing in Lake Onega? New data on the subsistence basis of the Late Stone age populations in Russian Karelia
Communities Beyond Society
Pagonauts and Argonauts of the Nordic Neolithic – on the Introduction of the Plank-Built Boat in the Baltic
Exploring Adaptive Variation among Hunter-gatherers with Binford’s Frames of Reference
Convergent catastrophes and the termination of the Arctic Norwegian Stone Age
Early Farming in the Northern Boreal Zone
Who is keen about jades? Evidence for socioeconomic differences between early Neolithic households at Chahai in Northeast China
Houses and Households
Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and beyond
Thinking about Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast
Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast
Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast
Beyond Kinship
About the House
Resilience of Past Landscapes
Household Archaeology
The Social Organization of the Tribes of the North Pacific Coast
The Social Organization of the Kwakiutl
Mobility/Sedentism
The corporate group as an archaeological unit
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |