DoomsdaysCWRE: https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/115717990449220660
Oooooh...! More finds at #Çatalhöyük!
Radical AnthropologyKey questions, key areas:
#Grandmothering/#cooperative #childcare. Do women experience this support? Are they living with Mum? (Hawkes et al, Hrdy, Opie and Power, Knight, Migliano, Scelza)
If #matrilocal, is #brideservice more productive than if #patrilocal (Marlowe, Woodburn)? what factors influence residence patterns? Do brothers keep check on husbands (Hill et al on bro/sis relation, which is an evolutionary novelty for great apes)?
Abundance, #biggame + women's #economic #autonomy (Lewis, Woodburn, Marlowe, Blurton Jones, Lee, Thomas). In what contexts can men be lazy and live off women's work? When do women get demanding with sex contingent on produce like honey and fatty meat? Women like meat (Biesele)!
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Women_Like_Meat.html?id=MDaBAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
Women Like Meat
In this study of the cognitive opposition of men and women in Ju/'hoan culture, Dr Biesele draws on a collection of oral literature, gathered over many years. The significance of an oral tradition to a foraging society is examined from anthropological, ethnographical and historical perspectives.
Preprint warning ⚠️
A study of social organisation, mobility patterns and gendered practices in Neolithic Southwest Asia using 131 #paleogenomes from #Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100-5950 BCE), a major settlement in Central Anatolia with an uninterrupted occupation and an apparent egalitarian structure.
Çatalhöyük individuals revealed no indication of patrilocal mobility (contrary to widespread evidence in European Neolithic).
'throughout the site’s occupation, genetic connections within Çatalhöyük buildings were much more frequently connected via the maternal than the paternal line. We also identified differential funerary treatment of female subadults compared to those of males, with a higher frequency of grave goods associated with females.'
Authors note this pattern weakened through time with more frequent unrelated subadults in burials.
#archaeology #neolithic #earlyfarming #kinship #residence #matrilineal #matrilocal
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.23.600259v1.