Cultural Evolution

by Feinman, Gary M.; Manzanilla, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780306462405
• ISBN10: 0306462400
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Drawing on Kent Flannery's forty years of cross-cultural research in the area, the contributors to this collection reflect the current diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. Collectively the volume expresses the richness of the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term change, as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing to examine these questions.

Table of Contents

PART I. INTRODUCTION
Cultural Evolutionary Approaches and Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future	3	(12)
Gary M. Feinman
Introduction	3	(1)
Evolutionary Approaches	4	(2)
Defining a Cultural Evolutionary Framework	6	(1)
Contemporary Cultural Evolutionary Approaches: What They Are and Are Not	6	(2)
Contributions to Contemporary Cultural Evolution in this Volume	8	(2)
Concluding Thoughts	10	(1)
References	11	(4)
PART II. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC SPECIALIZATION
Guila Naquitz Revisited: Agricultural Origins in Oaxaca, Mexico	15	(46)
Bruce D. Smith
Introduction: A Small and Shallow Cave	15	(5)
The Stratigraphic Integrity of Guila Naquitz	20	(7)
The Guila Naquitz Cucurbit Assemblage	27	(25)
Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) Rind Fragments	28	(2)
Cucurbita Rind Fragments	30	(1)
Cucurbita Peduncles and Peduncle Scars	31	(10)
Cucurbita Seeds	41	(11)
The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita Pepo	52	(4)
Conclusions and Discussion	56	(2)
Notes	58	(1)
References	59	(2)
The Evolution of the Tipiti: A Study in the Process of Invention	61	(34)
Robert L. Carneiro
Introduction	61	(4)
The Aim of the Chapter	64	(1)
Detoxification of Other Food Plants	64	(1)
Early Failures to Account for the Tipiti	65	(2)
The Problem of Detoxifying Manioc	67	(2)
Earlier Forms of Squeezing Manioc	69	(4)
The Kayapo Torsion Sack	73	(1)
The Kofan and Siona Squeezers, an Advance	74	(1)
The ``Puttee'' Form of Manioc Squeezer	75	(4)
Further Research on the Puttee	79	(3)
From the Puttee of the Tipiti	82	(2)
Where Did the Invention Occur?	84	(1)
Last Steps in the Invention	85	(1)
The Tchikao Tipiti Closes the Ring	86	(1)
Reconstructed Stages of Development	87	(1)
Conclusion	88	(1)
Acknowledgments	88	(1)
Notes	89	(2)
References	91	(4)
Accelerated Technological Change in Archaeology and Ancient History	95	(24)
Robert McC. Adams
Introduction	95	(4)
Technological Acceleration in the First Urban Societies	99	(6)
Dynamics of the Transition from Bronze to Iron	105	(5)
Technology and the Decline of the Roman Empire	110	(3)
Technology and the Complementary of Approaches	113	(2)
Acknowledgments	115	(1)
References	116	(3)
High-Intensity Household-Scale Production in Ancient Mesoamerica: A Perspective from Ejutla, Oaxaca	119	(26)
Gary M. Feinman
Linda M. Nicholas
Introduction	119	(1)
Monolithic Models of Craft Specialization	120	(2)
Scale versus Intensity: The Stone Tool Conundrum	122	(1)
Ancient Ejutla: Research Background	123	(3)
Shell Ornament Manufacture	126	(4)
Ceramic and Figurine Production	130	(4)
The Scale and Intensity of Ejutla Craftwork	134	(2)
Craft Production: Discussion and Implications	136	(2)
Implications for Ancient Mesoamerican Economies	138	(1)
Acknowledgments	139	(1)
References	140	(5)
PART III. POLITCAL COMPLEXITY AND ITS EMERGENCE
Lighting and Jaguars: Iconography, Ideology, and Politics in Formative Cuicatlan, Oaxaca	145	(32)
Charles S. Spencer
Elsa M. Redmond
Introduction	145	(1)
Toward a Holistic Archaeology	146	(1)
The Canada de Cuicatlan	147	(25)
Ethnohistoric Background	147	(2)
Perdido Phase	149	(11)
Lomas Phase	160	(12)
Conclusion	172	(1)
References	173	(4)
Games, Players, Rules, and Circumstances: Looking for Understandings of Social Change at Different Levels	177	(20)
Robert D. Drennan
Introduction	177	(1)
Actors and Structures	178	(4)
Changing the Rules of the Game	182	(2)
The Circumstances in Which the Game Is Played	184	(3)
Empirical Evaluation and the Contribution of Action Theory	187	(3)
Concluding Observations	190	(4)
References	194	(3)
Modeling Tributary Economies and Hierarchical Polities: A Prologue	197	(18)
Henry T. Wright
Introduction	197	(1)
Modeling Tributary Economies	198	(5)
Evaluation of the Models	203	(4)
Goods-Tribute versus Labor-Tribute Models	207	(4)
Discussion	211	(1)
Acknowledgments	212	(1)
References	212	(3)
The Development of Administration from Collective to Centralized Economies in the Mesopotamian World: The Transformation of an Institution from System-Serving to Self-Serving	215	(20)
Marcella Frangipane
Introduction	215	(2)
Redistribution: An Economic Category or a Useless Formal Concept	217	(4)
The Function of Administration in Redistributional and Centralized Societies in the Near East	221	(8)
The Origin of Administrative Procedures in Contexts of ``Egalitarian Redistribution''	222	(4)
The Change of Administration Function in Stratified Societies: From Unequal Household Control of Resources to ``Centralization''	226	(3)
Concluding Remarks	229	(2)
References	231	(4)
PART IV. CONCLUSIONS
A Concluding Perspective on the Theoretical Contributions of Kent V. Flannery: Tenets for the Next Century of U.S. Archeology	235	(8)
Gary M. Feinman
Introduction	235	(1)
Four Key Tenets for Contemporary Archaeology	236	(3)
A Comparative Historical Framework	237	(1)
A Holistic Orientation	237	(1)
A Multiscalar Perspective	238	(1)
A Focus on Cultural as Opposed to Arbitrary Units	239	(1)
Concluding Thoughts	239	(1)
References	240	(3)
Postscript	243	(14)
Linda Manzanilla
Comprehensive Bibliography of Kent V. Flannery	257	(6)
Index	263