Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism

Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute

Bibliographic Data

ID9347201
AuthorsL D Mcneil (0000-0002-8514-5799, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume8
Issue1-2
Pages71-98
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cognition and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1567-7095 • E-ISSN: 1568-5373
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156770908x289215
OpenAlexW2007781872
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited15

By combining ethnographic and evolutionary psychological approaches, this paper compares adaptive strategies of two groups of hunter-gatherers colonizing marginal environments, one in Southern Siberia (Minusinsk Basin) and the other in North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau). The biological and cultural survival of Southern Siberian (Evenki) and Basin-Plateau (Numic) hunter-gatherers depended upon developing a complex of social and symbolic strategies, including ritual, oral narratives and rock art. These symbolic representations, which emerged in response to reproductive and somatic demands, appear to have been preserved and transmitted inter-generationally, and to have recurred cross-culturally above chance

Archaeology · Art · Ethnography · Foreland basin · Geography · Narrative · Plateau (mathematics · Structural basin · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology

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