Maritime Hunter-Gatherers: Ecology and Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]

Yesner, David R.; Ayres, William S.; Carlson, David Lee; Davis, Richard S.; Dewar, Robert E.; Morales, Manuel R. González; Hassan, Fekri A.; Hayden, Brian; Lischka, Joseph J.; Sheets, Payson; Osborn, Alan J.; Pokotylo, David; Rogers, Tom; Spanier, Ehud; Turner, Bethany L.; Wreschner, Ernst E.

doi:10.1086/202568

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“…Interestingly, socio-cultural complexity manifested in elaborated architecture and art in hunter-gatherer populations in the near East [e.g., Gobekli Tepe (43)] has also been linked to increased productivity and population size (44). Similarly, sociopolitically complex hunter-gatherer societies usually developed in highly productive coastal areas and were often associated with near-shore upwelling systems (45). Our hypothesis for the emergence of AM assumes an increased sedentism or low rate of residential mobility in the Chinchorro.…”

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Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Marquet

Santoro

Latorre

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The emergence of complex cultural practices in simple huntergatherer groups poses interesting questions on what drives social complexity and what causes the emergence and disappearance of cultural innovations. Here we analyze the conditions that underlie the emergence of artificial mummification in the Chinchorro culture in the coastal Atacama Desert in northern Chile and southern Peru. We provide empirical and theoretical evidence that artificial mummification appeared during a period of increased coastal freshwater availability and marine productivity, which caused an increase in human population size and accelerated the emergence of cultural innovations, as predicted by recent models of cultural and technological evolution. Under a scenario of increasing population size and extreme aridity (with little or no decomposition of corpses) a simple demographic model shows that dead individuals may have become a significant part of the landscape, creating the conditions for the manipulation of the dead that led to the emergence of complex mortuary practices.climate variability | coastal desert | cultural evolution

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Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Marquet

Santoro

Latorre

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…No obstante, dado que todos los sitios de Taltal parecen corresponder a campamentos de tarea, es posible que el espectro faunístico representado en ellos no refleje adecuadamente la subsistencia de este primer momento ocupacional en Taltal, al menos en términos de la importancia relativa de cada tipo de recurso dentro de la dieta local. Un ejemplo de ello es que los moluscos constituyen el recurso más altamente representado en todos estos sitios, lo cual contrasta con el hecho de que, si bien indudablemente presentan atributos favorables en términos dietéticos, etnográficamente se ha señalado que los moluscos solo suelen ocupar cerca del 15% de la dieta de las poblaciones costeras (Yesner 1980;Meehan 1982;Bird et al 2004), pues se consideran pobres en calorías con respecto a los requerimientos metabólicos necesarios para un ser humano, y no podrían sustentar a largo plazo más que a unos pocos individuos (Bailey 1975;Orquera 1999;Bird et al 2009). …”

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Cronología Y Organización Económica De Las Poblaciones Arcaicas De La Costa De Taltal

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Andrade³

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ResumenEl presente trabajo constituye una reevaluación de la secuencia cronológico-cultural del período Arcaico en Taltal, en un intento por documentar las continuidades y transformaciones en la organización económica de las poblaciones locales que habitaron este territorio, a partir de nuevos datos generados durante los últimos años en conjunto con otros estudios realizados en la zona anteriormente. Esta investigación ha estado principalmente orientada al registro y comprensión de tres variables principales dentro de los sistemas económicos de las comunidades de cazadores, recolectores y pescadores del área de estudio: los sistemas de movilidad, las prácticas de subsistencia y la tecnología.Palabras claves: secuencia cronológica -organización económica -norte de Chile -costa arreica -Taltal. AbstractThis study is a reassessment of the chronological and cultural sequence of the Archaic Period in Taltal, in an attempt to document the continuities and transformations in the economic organization of local populations who inhabited this area. We base our understanding of this process on new data generated by our project in recent years, as well as previously published studies in the area. This research has been mainly directed towards the understanding of three variables in the economic organization of Taltal's hunter-gatherer-fisher communities: mobility systems, subsistence practices and technology.

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“…Yesner's (1980Yesner's ( , 1981Yesner's ( , 1987Yesner's ( , 1988Yesner's ( , 1998 studies, for example, were some of the first to identify the role of the Aleutian ecosystem in the structure of ancient Aleut society. He was also one of the first to attempt to identify human impacts on that ecosystem.…”

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An Introduction to the Biocomplexity of Sanak Island, Western Gulf of Alaska

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The Sanak Biocomplexity Project is a transdisciplinary research effort focused on a small island archipelago 50 km south of the Alaska Peninsula in the western Gulf of Alaska. This team of archaeologists, terrestrial ecologists, social anthropologists, intertidal ecologists, geologists, oceanographers, paleoecologists, and modelers is seeking to understanding the role of the ancient, historic, and modern Aleut in the structure and functioning of local and regional ecosystems. Using techniques ranging from systematic surveys to stable isotope chemistry, long-term shifts in social dynamics and ecosystem structure are present in the context of changing climatic regimes and human impacts. This paper presents a summary of a range of our preliminary findings.

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Maritime Hunter-Gatherers: Ecology and Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]

Cited by 236 publications

References 70 publications

Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Cronología Y Organización Económica De Las Poblaciones Arcaicas De La Costa De Taltal

An Introduction to the Biocomplexity of Sanak Island, Western Gulf of Alaska

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