“…The appearance of personal ornaments and long-distance exchange and the possibility of rising population densities may be regarded as signs of people living under pressure and in the process of forming wider associations. In this context the spectacular increase in cave art and ceremony may represent an effort to reduce conflict or, more positively, to create allegiances beyond those of kith and kin, and status burials may indicate the emergence of individuals specializing in the organization of ceremony (Eastham and Eastham 1979;Denis Vialou, personal communication, 1980). I have only one small bone to pick with this paper, specifically with the last paragraph, where White states that "there are undoubtedly other constructs" to account for the Middle/ Upper Paleolithic transition and refers to his own as a "house of cards."…”