Search Results - "Foor, Thomas A"

Evolution of the Okvik/Old Bering Sea culture of the Bering Strait as a major transition by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Laue, Cheyenne, Gjesfjeld, Erik, Walsh, Matthew J, Denis, Megan, Foor, Thomas A

“…Great transitions are thought to embody major shifts in locus of selection, labour diversification and communication systems. Such expectations are relevant…”
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Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica by Kohler, Timothy A., Smith, Michael E., Bogaard, Amy, Feinman, Gary M., Peterson, Christian E., Betzenhauser, Alleen, Pailes, Matthew, Stone, Elizabeth C., Marie Prentiss, Anna, Dennehy, Timothy J., Ellyson, Laura J., Nicholas, Linda M., Faulseit, Ronald K., Styring, Amy, Whitlam, Jade, Fochesato, Mattia, Foor, Thomas A., Bowles, Samuel

“…Analyses of house-size distributions in the Old and New World showed that wealth disparities increased with the domestication of plants and animals and with…”
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Emergence of persistent institutionalized inequality at the Bridge River site, British Columbia: the roles of managerial mutualism and coercion by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Foor, Thomas A, Hampton, Ashley, Walsh, Matthew J, Denis, Megan, Edwards, Alysha

“…Persistent institutionalized inequality (PII) emerged at the Bridge River site by 1200-1300 years ago. Research confirms that PII developed at a time of…”
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Evolution of Early Thule Material Culture: Cultural Transmission and Terrestrial Ecology by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Walsh, Matthew J., Foor, Thomas A.

“…We investigate how evolution proceeds across multiple scales considering culture as species, hierarchically integrated systems, assemblages of many coherent…”
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The Record of Dogs in Traditional Villages of the Mid-Fraser Canyon, British Columbia: Ethnological and Archaeological Evidence by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Walsh, Matthew J., Foor, Thomas A., O’Brien, Haley, Cail, Hannah S.

“…Dogs ( Canis familiaris ) are ubiquitous in human settlements. A range of studies suggests that uses of dogs vary with ecological context. High seasonality and…”
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THE EVOLUTION OF MATERIAL WEALTH-BASED INEQUALITY: THE RECORD OF HOUSEPIT 54, BRIDGE RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Foor, Thomas A., Hampton, Ashley, Ryan, Ethan, Walsh, Matthew J.

“…The evolution of material wealth-based inequality is an important topic in archaeological research. While a number of explanatory models have been proposed,…”
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The Cultural Evolution of Material Wealth-Based Inequality at Bridge River, British Columbia by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Foor, Thomas A., Cross, Guy, Harris, Lucille E., Wanzenried, Michael

“…A fundamental problem for anthropological archaeology lies in defining and explaining the evolutionary origins of social inequality. Researchers have offered a…”
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Evolution of a Late Prehistoric Winter Village on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia: Geophysical Investigations, Radiocarbon Dating, and Spatial Analysis of the Bridge River Site by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Cross, Guy, Foor, Thomas A., Hogan, Mathew, Markle, Dirk, Clarke, David S.

“…A common issue for archaeologists who study intermediate-scale societies is defining scale and complexity of occupations across entire villages or towns. This…”
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Calibrated Radiocarbon Dating at Keatley Creek: The Chronology of Occupation at a Complex Hunter-Gatherer Village by Prentiss, William C., Lenert, Michael, Foor, Thomas A., Goodale, Nathan B., Schlegel, Trinity

“…This paper provides an analysis of radiocarbon dates acquired during earlier and recent field seasons at the Keatley Creek site, southern British Columbia…”
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Cultural macroevolution in the middle to late Holocene Arctic of east Siberia and north America by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Walsh, Matthew J., Gjesfjeld, Erik, Denis, Megan, Foor, Thomas A.

“…•Phylogenetic analysis provides insights into the pattern of evolution.•Arctic cultural macroevolution occurred on a species-like scale.•Cultural evolution…”
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Evolutionary household archaeology: Inter-generational cultural transmission at housepit 54, Bridge River site, British Columbia by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Walsh, Matthew J., Foor, Thomas A., Hampton, Ashley, Ryan, Ethan

“…Anthropologists have recognized that households may have diverse histories resulting in patterns of unstable membership, a wide array of tactics for production…”
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The Emergence of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the Canadian Plateau: A Response to Hayden by Prentiss, William C., Lenert, Michael, Foor, Thomas A., Goodale, Nathan B.

“…Brian Hayden argues that our analysis of Keatley Creek stratigraphy and dates offers inaccurate conclusions. Although our data demonstrate that the village…”
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Malthusian cycles among semi-sedentary Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers: The socio-economic and demographic history of Housepit 54, Bridge River site, British Columbia by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Walsh, Matthew J., Foor, Thomas A., Bobolinski, Kathryn, Hampton, Ashley, Ryan, Ethan, O'Brien, Haley

“…•Malthusian demographic models are useful for understanding village history.•Housepit 54, Bridge River site, provides a fine-grained 350-year household…”
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Testing the Malthusian model: Population and storage at Housepit 54, Bridge River, British Columbia by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Foor, Thomas A., Hampton, Ashley

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Cultural macroevolution among high latitude hunter–gatherers: a phylogenetic study of the Arctic Small Tool tradition by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Walsh, Matthew J., Foor, Thomas A., Barnett, Kristen D.

“…This study tests alternative hypotheses regarding the underlying conditions favoring variation in degree of differentiation between cultures in an evolving…”
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ENTERING SACRED LANDSCAPES: CULTURAL EXPECTATIONS VERSUS LEGAL REALITIES IN THE NORTHWESTERN PLAINS by CAMPBELL, GREGORY R., FOOR, THOMAS A.

“…Sacred and cultural geography is a universal feature of indigenous religious practices across Native North America. However, in a growing number of cases,…”
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Divergent population dynamics in the middle to late Holocene lower Fraser valley and mid-Fraser canyon, British Columbia by Marie Prentiss, Anna, Edinborough, Kevan, Crema, Enrico R., Kuijt, Ian, Goodale, Nathan, Ryan, Ethan, Edwards, Alysha, Foor, Thomas A.

“…•Demographic ecology offers insights into population stability in village societies.•Summed probability distributions are useful for modeling population…”
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A multivariate perspective on lithic technological organization at Housepit 54, Bridge River Site (EeRl4), British Columbia by Prentiss, Anna Marie, Foor, Thomas A., Ryan, Ethan, Hampton, Ashley, Walsh, Matthew J.

“…•The sequence of floors at Housepit 54 offers significant data on household history.•The floors of Housepit 54 provide insight into variation in household…”
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Erratum: Corrigendum: Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica by Kohler, Timothy A., Smith, Michael E., Bogaard, Amy, Feinman, Gary M., Peterson, Christian E., Betzenhauser, Alleen, Pailes, Matthew, Stone, Elizabeth C., Prentiss, Anna Marie, Dennehy, Timothy J., Ellyson, Laura J., Nicholas, Linda M., Faulseit, Ronald K., Styring, Amy, Whitlam, Jade, Fochesato, Mattia, Foor, Thomas A., Bowles, Samuel

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Corrigendum: Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica by Kohler, Timothy A, Smith, Michael E, Bogaard, Amy, Feinman, Gary M, Peterson, Christian E, Betzenhauser, Alleen, Pailes, Matthew, Stone, Elizabeth C, Prentiss, Anna Marie, Dennehy, Timothy J, Ellyson, Laura J, Nicholas, Linda M, Faulseit, Ronald K, Styring, Amy, Whitlam, Jade, Fochesato, Mattia, Foor, Thomas A, Bowles, Samuel

“…This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/nature24646…”
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