Human Territoriality: An Ecological Reassessment

Dyson‐Hudson, Rada; Smith, Eric Alden

doi:10.1525/aa.1978.80.1.02a00020

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“…R. Kelly points out (2013) that we should not be involved in the studies of territoriality in the modern meaning, but we should aim to evaluate the manner and range of access to various areas and sources located there. Low density of settlement and scattered sources in upland areas between 18 th and 15 th millennium BP could have resulted in the lack of their permanent protection due to negative advantage rate resulting from such actions (according to Economic Defensibility Model, Dyson-Hudson and Smith, 1978). This, in turn, might have facilitated access to sources to 'external' groups.…”

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The Epigravettian and the Magdalenian in Poland: New chronological data and an old problem

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Abstract:The aim of the paper is to present a new chronological model of recolonisation of the area located north of the Sudetes and the Carpathians after Late Glacial Maximum (LGM). Until recently, it was believed that reoccupation of these areas occurred only due to the Magdalenian people. New chronometric data (radiocarbon and optoluminescence ones) coming from the Magdalenian and Epigravettian sites together with the application of Bayesian modelling of new records allowed us to present another model. In the light of the new research, it seems that the groups classified as the Epigravettian and Magdalenian could have coexisted at the same time in the same areas. The new model states that it is possible to assume coexistence of these groups during the period of 2300 years between 16500 and 14200 years BP.

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The Epigravettian and the Magdalenian in Poland: New chronological data and an old problem

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“…A key factor here is the characteristics of the resources themselves; specifically, the extent to which they are excludable and divisible and thus amenable to some sort of private ownership [27]. All production involves the application of land, labour and capital (understood in the most general terms) and the transactions associated with the distribution of the results, but these processes always take place within the context of a set of institutions that define the rights that groups and individuals have to use those resources and to exclude others from their use.…”

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Property and wealth inequality as cultural niche construction

Shennan

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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In contrast to other approaches, evolutionary perspectives on understanding the power and wealth inequalities in human societies view wealth and power not as ends in themselves but as proximate goals that contribute to the ultimate Darwinian goal of achieving reproductive success. The most successful means of achieving it in specific times and places depend on local conditions and these have changed in the course of human history, to such an extent that strategies focused on the maintenance and increase of wealth can even be more successful in reproductive terms than strategies directed at maximizing reproductive success in the short term. This paper argues that a major factor leading to such changes is a shift in the nature of inter-generational wealth transfers from relatively intangible to material property resources and the opportunities these provided for massively increased inequality. This shift can be seen as a process of niche construction related to the increasing importance of fixed and defensible resources in many societies after the end of the last Ice Age. It is suggested that, despite problems of inference, the evidence of the archaeological record can be used to throw light on these processes in specific places and times.

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“…Surplus production, however, is likely an endogenous outcome of other inequality-generating factors, such as differential access to patchy, predictable, and accumulable resources. When territorial resources are concentrated in dense, high-quality patches, they become "economically defensible," leading to monopolization by emergent elites (Boone 1992;Brown 1964;Dyson-Hudson and Smith 1978). Storage and accumulation of material resources over time can lead to greater disparities in wealth than exist when resources are transient.…”

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Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality

Gurven¹,

Mulder²,

Hooper³

et al. 2010

Current Anthropology

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Human Territoriality: An Ecological Reassessment

Abstract: T h e question of human territoriality has frequently been debated, but most preui-

Cited by 549 publications

References 48 publications

The Epigravettian and the Magdalenian in Poland: New chronological data and an old problem

The Epigravettian and the Magdalenian in Poland: New chronological data and an old problem

Property and wealth inequality as cultural niche construction

Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality

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