Homes for Hunters? Exploring the Concept of Home at Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Upper Paleolithic Europe and Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia

Maher, Lisa; Conkey, Margaret W.

doi:10.1086/701523

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“…Large camps grow, and feasting and dancing go on until the elephant has been consumed. (Lewis 2017 p. 227) It is plausible that similar events regularly occurred during human evolution because there is archaeological evidence for domestic spaces, large game hunting, mass kills, cooking, large aggregations, burials, ornaments, use of pigments, and musical instruments throughout the Upper Pleistocene, with some evidence appearing earlier (Barham 2002;Conard et al 2009;Kuhn 2014;Kuhn & Stiner 2019;Maher & Conkey 2019;Stiner 2019Stiner , 2013Stiner , 2017.…”

Section: Synchronous Coordinated Music As a Credible Signal Of Coalitmentioning

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Origins of music in credible signaling

Krasnow²,

et al. 2020

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Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (e.g., rhythmic entrainment) and the effects of adaptations for non-musical functions (e.g., auditory scene analysis). How did music evolve? Here, we show that prevailing views on the evolution of music — that music is a byproduct of other evolved faculties, evolved for social bonding, or evolved to signal mate quality — are incomplete or wrong. We argue instead that music evolved as a credible signal in at least two contexts: coalitional interactions and infant care. Specifically, we propose that (1) the production and reception of coordinated, entrained rhythmic displays is a co-evolved system for credibly signaling coalition strength, size, and coordination ability; and (2) the production and reception of infant-directed song is a co-evolved system for credibly signaling parental attention to secondarily altricial infants. These proposals, supported by interdisciplinary evidence, suggest that basic features of music, such as melody and rhythm, result from adaptations in the proper domain of human music. The adaptations provide a foundation for the cultural evolution of music in its actual domain, yielding the diversity of musical forms and musical behaviors found worldwide.

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Section: Synchronous Coordinated Music As a Credible Signal Of Coalitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Origins of music in credible signaling

Krasnow²,

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“…While Watkins (2004a; 2004b) has argued that the construction of houses and special purpose buildings during the early Neolithic is representative of a new worldview. Place‐making and the creation of shared experiences and memories may, of course, be much older than the Neolithic and appears to have deep roots in the Palaeolithic (Maher 2019; Maher and Conkey 2019). Through coming together in the joint enterprise of communal building projects communities in the tenth millennium BCE were assembling themselves into different social structures.…”

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The Formation of Early Neolithic Communities in the Central Zagros: An 11,500 Year‐old Communal Structure at Asiab

Richter

Darabi

Alibaigi

et al. 2021

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary Communal buildings have been reported from a number of early Neolithic sites from the Levant and Anatolia, but none were known from the central Zagros. Here we report on the recent excavations at Asiab, Kermanshah province, Iran, and argue that the principal feature found during Robert Braidwood’s excavation at the site in 1960 should be interpreted as an example of a communal building. We discuss the results of the previous and recent excavations, highlight the key features of this building, and the implications for our understanding of the early Neolithic in the ‘eastern wing’ of the Fertile Crescent.

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“…It is known that several case studies, methods and discussions on the orientation of Neanderthal shelters (Kolen, 1999;Roebroeks and Tuffreau, 1999) have been published after the first study of Monnier (1982). However, some of these studies are dedicated to the remains of Upper Palaeolithic built shelters (Maher and Conkey, 2019) which did not exist during the Middle Palaeolithic of Brittany where no trace of built refuges have ever been observed. In addition, and considering the solifluction and transgressive phenomena previously described, the existence of remains of 'walls' (Stapert, 1990) or the presence of artefacts, bones or hearths in place (Clark, 2017) is extremely rare.…”

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Impact of katabatic winds on the environment of Neanderthals during the Middle Palaeolithic in westernmost Europe

Lefort

Monnier

Renouf³

et al. 2021

J Quaternary Science

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Compilation of the offshore and onshore altitudinal limits of the loess deposits of western France and southern England shows that they were deposited by low-level wind fields. These relate to (i) the deflation of silt-rich sediment extracted from the outwash plains of the not far distant British-Irish Ice Sheet and from the palaeo-rivers of the Channel, and (ii) the existence of north and north-western palaeo-winds deduced from particle size analysis and heavy mineral distribution, and suggest (iii) that loess particles were transported by strong katabatic winds blowing from the northern ice-covered regions towards Brittany and Normandy. Comparison between the main orientation of Neanderthal shelters and the direction of the katabatic winds shows that they were perpendicular to each other. The dominant orientation of the shelters was apparently ruled by these winds. A small-scale study concentrating on the penultimate glaciation shows that in contrast to Brittany and Normandy where loess deposits accumulated on northfacing cliffs, in England the same particles were deposited on the leeside of the hills. The existence of deflation zones, violently swept by Marine Isotope Stage 6 katabatic winds south of the British-Irish ice sheet, was probably at the origin of the restricted number of Neanderthals at that time in England.

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Homes for Hunters? Exploring the Concept of Home at Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Upper Paleolithic Europe and Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia

Cited by 27 publications

References 197 publications

Origins of music in credible signaling

Origins of music in credible signaling

The Formation of Early Neolithic Communities in the Central Zagros: An 11,500 Year‐old Communal Structure at Asiab

Impact of katabatic winds on the environment of Neanderthals during the Middle Palaeolithic in westernmost Europe

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