Evolution of “Tribal” Social Networks: Theory and Prehistoric North American Evidence

Braun, David P.; Plog, Stephen

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“…No solo se hace alusión al embellecimiento de la misma con fines estéticos, sino que es vista como una forma de expresión que se relaciona con la participación activa de los artefactos en la vida cotidiana. En este sentido, un estilo cerámico implica que quienes lo realizan comparten ciertos códi-gos y signos visuales, tanto de significación como de creencias; a la vez que dan sentido de pertenencia y contribuyen a dar identidad a un grupo (Braun y Plog, 1982;Gosselain, 1999;Janusek, 2005).…”

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Arquitectura y materialidad de la interacción social en la comunidad aldeana del Chañarcito, Los Molinos, La Rioja

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ResumenEn este artículo proponemos un acercamiento que combina miradas sobre la espacialidad y la materialidad de la comunidad aldeana del Chañarcito, La Rioja (600 al 800 DC). Nuestro enfoque genera información sobre los paisajes sociales en el piedemonte oriental de la Sierra de Velasco, postulando el surgimiento de mecanismos de reproducción de desigualdades sociopolíticas y prácticas de interacción social, representado en la construcción de espacios públicos -plataformay en el consumo diferencial de objetos cerámicos. La identificación de usos compartidos de patrones arquitectónicos, técnicas constructivas y de estilos cerámicos, contribuye asimismo al entendimiento sobre la construcción de identidades comunitarias en el área. El análisis parte de una perspectiva local que se inserta a su vez en el contexto regional y macrorregional de las sociedades formativas que se desarrollaron hacia la segunda mitad del primer milenio DC.Palabras claves: comunidad, espacialidad, materialidad, formativo, La Rioja. AbstractIn this paper we propose an approach that combines perspectives on the spatiality and the materiality of the Chañarcito village community, La Rioja (600 to 800 AD). Our focus generates information on the social landscape in the eastern foothills of the Velasco Mountains, and supports the emergence of reproduction of socio-political inequalities mechanisms and practices of social interaction, represented in the construction of public spaces -platform-and the differential consumption of ceramic objects. The identification of shared uses of architectural pattern, constructive technologies and ceramic styles, contributes to the understanding on the construction of community identities in the area. The analysis is based on a local perspective that is also inserted in the regional and macro-regional context of the formative communities that developed in the second half of the first millennium.

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“…Archaeological data and analogies from extant populations are used to discuss a model of Late Woodland population dynamics. The Late Woodland data are also compared to previous studies of Middle Woodland skeletal variation (Buikstra, 1976(Buikstra, ,1977 and are used to support a model of Middle to Late Woodland demographic change developed by Braun (1977) and Braun and Plog (1982) from ceramic data.…”

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Population structure and skeletal variation in the Late Woodland of west‐central Illinois

Conner¹

1990

American J Phys Anthropol

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This paper analyzes nonmetric trait variation in 11 late Late Woodland (ca. AD 700-1000) and one Mississippian (AD 1000-1300) skeletal samples from west-central Illinois from a population-structure perspective. Most of the sites are of the Bluff phase of Late Woodland in the lower Illinois River valley; others are from a nearby, contemporary archaeological phase. Late Woodland as a whole era (ca. AD 250-1000) was a period of marked population growth and expansion into new regional environments, trends that accompanied horticultural intensification in the area. Overall variation between sites was low, but males, females, and the total sample exhibited a significant geographic component to variation due to interregional morphological differences. The Bluff sites tended to group together relative to the non-Bluff sites. However, there was no significant geographic component to variation among the Bluff sites. The results are only partially consistent with archaeological data suggesting population growth and expansion through fissioning. Previous studies have demonstrated significant heterogeneity for nonmetric trait frequencies among Middle Woodland (ca. 100 BC to AD 250) sites, suggesting a Middle to Late Woodland change in population structure that lowered levels of morphological variation. This supports a model of increased intra- and interregional interaction from Middle to Late Woodland times developed from ceramic data by Braun and by Braun and Plog.

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“…It has come to be seen as central to individual fitness [35][36][37], although it still lacks a formal analytical framework [37][38][39][40]. We suggest that progress can be made in this direction using social network neo-theory [41], because consistency in dyadic patterns of behaviour, along with any changes in consistency, can be captured, in abstract terms, by the topological features characteristic of interaction networks [35,42].…”

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Taking sociality seriously: the structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

Barrett

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Lusseau

2012

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Understanding human cognitive evolution, and that of the other primates, means taking sociality very seriously. For humans, this requires the recognition of the sociocultural and historical means by which human minds and selves are constructed, and how this gives rise to the reflexivity and ability to respond to novelty that characterize our species. For other, non-linguistic, primates we can answer some interesting questions by viewing social life as a feedback process, drawing on cybernetics and systems approaches and using social network neo-theory to test these ideas. Specifically, we show how social networks can be formalized as multi-dimensional objects, and use entropy measures to assess how networks respond to perturbation. We use simulations and natural ‘knock-outs’ in a free-ranging baboon troop to demonstrate that changes in interactions after social perturbations lead to a more certain social network, in which the outcomes of interactions are easier for members to predict. This new formalization of social networks provides a framework within which to predict network dynamics and evolution, helps us highlight how human and non-human social networks differ and has implications for theories of cognitive evolution.

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Evolution of “Tribal” Social Networks: Theory and Prehistoric North American Evidence

Cited by 246 publications

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Arquitectura y materialidad de la interacción social en la comunidad aldeana del Chañarcito, Los Molinos, La Rioja

Arquitectura y materialidad de la interacción social en la comunidad aldeana del Chañarcito, Los Molinos, La Rioja

Population structure and skeletal variation in the Late Woodland of west‐central Illinois

Taking sociality seriously: the structure of multi-dimensional social networks as a source of information for individuals

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