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2 - “Status” Pursuits in Prehistory, and the Condition We Are In

from Part I - Status Competition and Hierarchy in Human Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

By
Brian Hayden
Edited by
Paul Roscoe  and
Cindy Isenhour
Paul Roscoe
Affiliation:
University of Maine
Cindy Isenhour
Affiliation:
University of Maine
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Summary

With the development of Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic technology and the ability to produce surpluses, ca. 35,000 years ago, the door was open for aggrandizers to pursue a number of surplus-based strategies to benefit themselves and transform cultures into the competitive consumption arenas familiar to us today.

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Aggrandizersconsumptionprehistorysurplusesstatustransegalitarian
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Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives
 , pp. 33 - 58
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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