Hunting, healing, and hxaro exchange

Wiessner, Polly

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Hunting, healing, and hxaro exchange

Wiessner, Polly·2002·Evolution and Human Behavior

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Ethnographic parallels such as the xharo network among the !Kung indicate that wearing particular beads signals membership of mutual assistance networks, where members exchange information about technological innovations and the whereabouts of animals and plants in a ritualized context.
“Ethnographic parallels such as the xharo network among the !Kung (Ju/'hoansi) in southern Africa indicate that wearing particular beads signals membership of mutual assistance networks, where members exchange information about technological innovations and the whereabouts of animals and plants in a ritualized context (Wiessner, 2002).”
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“…anthropological literature is still quite limited on this subject, one way hunters signal good qualities and build social capital is by acquiring large, high-risk, and/or dangerous prey and by generously sharing the meat in a highly visible context (Hawkes et al. 1991; Smith 2004; Wiessner 2002).”
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Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies
Bird, D. W., Bird, R. B., Codding, B. F., & Zeanah, D. W. (2019) · Journal of Human Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.005 · Cited by 185 · see citing works
Why Women Hunt
Bird, R. B., & Bird, D. W. (2008) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/587700 · Cited by 182 · see citing works
“A forager who targets such resources becomes a source of public goods and can potentially gain socially, politically, and reproductively through such display (Hawkes 1991, 1993; Wiessner 2002; Smith, Bliege Bird, and Bird 2003; Smith and Bliege Bird 2005).”
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Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter‐Gatherers
Smith, E. A., Hill, K. R., Marlowe, F. W., Nolin, D. A., Wiessner, P., Gurven, M., Bowles, S., Mulder, M. B., Hertz, T., & Bell, A. (2010) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/648530 · Cited by 171 · see citing works
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Upper-body strength predicts hunting reputation and reproductive success in Hadza hunter–gatherers
Apicella, C. L. (2014) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.07.001 · Cited by 152 · see citing works
“Women value hunting ability in mates (Marlowe, 2005), and the finding that good hunters experience greater reproductive success has now been reported in a number of societies including the Hadza (Hawkes, 2001; Marlowe, 1999), the Ache of Paraguay (Hill & Hurtado, 1996; Kaplan & Hill, 1985) and the !Kung Bushmen (Wiess…”
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Diet, Mobility, and Settlement Pattern among Holocene Hunter‐Gatherers in Southernmost Africa
Sealy, J. C. (2006) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/504163 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
Reciprocal altruism, rather than kin selection, maintains nepotistic food transfers on an Ache reservation
Allen-Arave, W., Gurven, M., & Hill, K. (2008) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.03.002 · Cited by 147 · see citing works
“Finally, generous individuals may attract a larger and healthier social support group (Wiessner 2002), which may provide more opportunities for cooperation and advantage in competitive interactions with other groups.”
Small prey hunting technology and zooarchaeological measures of taxonomic diversity and abundance: Ethnoarchaeological evidence from Central African forest foragers
Lupo, K. D., & Schmitt, D. N. (2005) · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2005.02.002 · Cited by 139 · see citing works
Re-Thinking Great Basin Foragers: Prestige Hunting and Costly Signaling during the Middle Archaic Period
McGuire, K. R., & Hildebrandt, W. R. (2005) · American Antiquity · doi:10.2307/40035870 · Cited by 140 · see citing works
What Explains the Carcass Field Processing and Transport Decisions of Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers? Measures of Economic Anatomy and Zooarchaeological Skeletal Part Representation
Lupo, K. D. (2006) · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · doi:10.1007/s10816-006-9000-6 · Cited by 139 · see citing works
“…space and have a significant influence on skeletal part treatment (see, for example, Hawkes, 1991; Hawkes et al., 1991; Hawkes and Bliege Bird, 2002; Lupo and Schmitt, 2004, 2005; Marlowe, 2004; McGuire and Hildebrant, 2005; Smith, 2004; Smith and Bliege Bird, 2000; Sosis, 2000; Wiessner, 2002).”
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Cultivation of cereals by the first farmers was not more productive than foraging.
Bowles, S. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1010733108 · Cited by 134 · see citing works
“As a result, foragers may readily smooth their consumption over short periods through reciprocal sharing between the lucky and the unlucky (33).”
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Prosocial signaling and cooperation among Martu hunters
Bird, R. B., & Power, E. A. (2015) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.02.003 · Cited by 137 · see citing works
“As Lee goes on to explain, and as others have shown as well (Wiessner, 2002), sharing large quantities of meat can be met with thanks (instead of the chastisement Lee was subjected to) and can have positive outcomes for hunters if hunters share in ways consistent with the notion that they are distancing themselves fro…”
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Meat sharing for coalitional support
Patton, J. Q. (2005) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.008 · Cited by 135 · see citing works
Hunting, social status and biological fitness
Gurven, M., & Rueden, C. R. V. (2006) · Biodemography and Social Biology · doi:10.1080/19485565.2006.9989118 · Cited by 135 · see citing works
Provisioning offspring and others: risk–energy trade-offs and gender differences in hunter–gatherer foraging strategies
Codding, B. F., Bird, R. B., & Bird, D. W. (2011) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2403 · Cited by 129 · see citing works
Human pair‐bonds: Evolutionary functions, ecological variation, and adaptive development
Quinlan, R. J. (2008) · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · doi:10.1002/evan.20191 · Cited by 129 · see citing works
Of Meat and Men: Sex Differences in Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Meat
Love, H., & Sulikowski, D. (2018) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00559 · Cited by 131 · see citing works
“Kung (Wiessner, 2002), people of Lamalera, Indonesia (Alvard and Gillespie, 2004) and the Meriam of the Torres Strait (Smith et al., 2003) hunting success in males has been linked with higher fertility, younger wives, more sexual partners and/or lower child mortality (reviewed by Smith, 2004) and…”
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The Vines of Complexity
Wiessner, P. (2002) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/338301 · Cited by 154 · see citing works
“I would agree with Aswani that kinrelated altruism plays an important role in cooperation (Wiessner 2002), but cooperation in human societies extends far beyond the bounds of relatedness which would have significant genetic payoffs.”
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Cultural attitudes are stronger predictors of bushmeat consumption and preference than economic factors among urban Amazonians from Brazil and Colombia
Morsello, C., Yagüe, B., Beltreschi, L., van Vliet, N., Adams, C., Schor, T., Quiceno-Mesa, M. P., & Cruz, D. (2015) · Ecology and Society · doi:10.5751/es-07771-200421 · Cited by 122 · see citing works
“For example, there is evidence that attitudes concerning the role of sharing bushmeat in the fulfilment of social, cultural, and political needs are equally important in rural and urban areas (Wiessner 2002, Kaltenborn et al. 2005, Patton 2005).”
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Risk-Pooling and Herd Survival: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Gift-Giving System
Aktipis, A., Cronk, L., & de Aguiar, R. (2011) · Human Ecology · doi:10.1007/s10745-010-9364-9 · Cited by 121 · see citing works
“…of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA e-mail: aktipis@alumni.reed.edu C. A. Aktipis Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA L. Cronk :R. de Aguiar Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA provide food and water, so that hxaro networks form a kind of social safety net (Lee 1993; Wiessner 1977, 2002).”
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Holocene Environmental Change, Artiodactyl Abundances, and Human Hunting Strategies in the Great Basin
Byers, D. A., & Broughton, J. M. (2004) · American Antiquity · doi:10.2307/4128418 · Cited by 120 · see citing works
Food-Sharing Networks in Lamalera, Indonesia
Nolin, D. A. (2010) · Human Nature · doi:10.1007/s12110-010-9091-3 · Cited by 118 · see citing works
“There are no explicit norms dictating to whom one must give or from what prey type, nor are there formalized reciprocal relationships as are found in some groups (Damas 1972, Weissner 2002).”
Sealing, whaling and caribou: the skeletal isotope chemistry of Eastern Arctic foragers
Coltrain, J. B., Hayes, M. G., & O’Rourke, D. H. (2003) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2003.06.003 · Cited by 112 · see citing works
Teaching in Hunter-Gatherers
Boyette, A. H., & Hewlett, B. S. (2017) · Review of Philosophy and Psychology · doi:10.1007/s13164-017-0347-2 · Cited by 110 · see citing works
“…and a variety of institutions have been described across hunter-gatherer cultures that limit the power and access to resources of single individuals, no matter how instrumentally valuable they are to the group (e.g. excellent big game hunters; Lee 1969; Lewis 2002; Wiessner 2002; Woodburn 1982).”
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The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory to the Present
Hayden, B. D. (2014) · Cited by 110 · see citing works
When bigger is not better: The economics of hunting megafauna and its implications for Plio-Pleistocene hunter-gatherers
Lupo, K. D., & Schmitt, D. N. (2016) · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology · doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2016.07.012 · Cited by 107 · see citing works
“These individuals can benefit from nonconsumptive rewards such as access to mates, larger networks of allies and/or trading partners, increased popularity and political deference (e.g., Bliege Bird and Smith, 2005; Hawkes, 2000; Sosis, 2000; Weissner, 2002).”
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Ostrich eggshell bead strontium isotopes reveal persistent macroscale social networking across late Quaternary southern Africa
Stewart, B. A., Zhao, Y., Mitchell, P., Dewar, G., Gleason, J., & Blum, J. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · doi:10.1073/pnas.1921037117 · Cited by 93 · see citing works
The Roots and Fruits of Social Status in Small-Scale Human Societies
von Rueden, C. V. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0867-7_9 · Cited by 78 · see citing works
Did climatic seasonality control late Quaternary artiodactyl densities in western North America?
Broughton, J. M., Byers, D. A., Bryson, R. A., Eckerle, W., & Madsen, D. B. (2008) · Quaternary Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.07.005 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
“Finally, recent ethnographic research on men’s hunting goals (e.g., Hawkes, 1991, 1993; Wiessner, 2002), clearly underlines the overriding significance that hunters attach to prey body size: if large game are present on the landscape, male hunters persistently seek them out.”
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Hormonal Mechanisms for Regulation of Aggression in Human Coalitions
Flinn, M. V., Ponzi, D., & Muehlenbein, M. P. (2012) · Human Nature · doi:10.1007/s12110-012-9135-y · Cited by 94 · see citing works
“…as the patrilocal band (Chapais 2008) and the tribe (Rodseth and Wrangham 2004), with flexible residence choice with kin in multiple communities and apparent intentional cultivation of ties with relatives in multiple locations (e.g., Hughes 1988; Marlowe 2010; Walker et al. 2010; Wiessner 2002).”
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Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures
Wutich, A., Budds, J., Jepson, W. E., Harris, L. M., Adams, E. A., Brewis, A., Cronk, L., DeMyers, C. A., Maes, K. C., Marley, T. L., et al. (2018) · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · doi:10.1002/wat2.1309 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
“This would be the case, for example, in the xaro exchange relationships that facilitated water sharing among Ju/'hoansi groups (Wiessner, 2002).”
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Evolutionary Models of Leadership
Garfield, Z. H., Hubbard, R., & Hagen, E. (2019) · Human Nature · doi:10.1007/s12110-019-09338-4 · Cited by 64 · see citing works
Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains
Zedeño, M. N., Ballenger, J. A. M., & Murray, J. R. (2014) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/674535 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Evolution of Paternal Investment
Geary, D. C. (2015) · doi:10.1002/9781119125563.evpsych120 · Cited by 89 · see citing works
Why Wage Earners Hunt: Food Sharing, Social Structure, and Influence in an Arctic Mixed Economy
Ready, E., & Power, E. A. (2017) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/696018 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
“Network ideas have long been implicitly part ofHBE research on food sharing specifically (e.g., Hames 2000; Kaplan and Hill 1985) and support relationships and exchange more generally (e.g., Macfarlan, Quinlan, and Remiker 2013; Wiessner 1982).”
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Showing off, Foraging Models, and the Ascendance of Large-Game Hunting in the California Middle Archaic
Broughton, J. M., & Bayham, F. E. (2003) · American Antiquity · doi:10.2307/3557073 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
Still Bay and Howiesons Poort Foraging Strategies: Recent Research and Models of Culture Change
Mccall, G. S., & Thomas, J. T. (2012) · African Archaeological Review · doi:10.1007/s10437-012-9107-y · Cited by 81 · see citing works
Women’s work, child care, and helpers-at-the-nest in a hunter-gatherer society
HAMES, R. B., & Draper, P. (2004) · Human Nature · doi:10.1007/s12110-004-1012-x · Cited by 77 · see citing works
Human Prey Choice in the Late Pleistocene and Its Relation to Megafaunal Extinctions
Surovell, T. A., & Waguespack, N. M. (2008) · Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8793-6_5 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
“Given the choice between procuring a 1,000 kg animal and a 20 kg animal with comparable handling costs, why not choose the larger? The potential caloric benefits of large animals are frequently matched by social (Testart, 1986; Condon et al., 1995; Cox et al., 1999; Gurven et al., 2000; Wiessner, 2002) and/or reproduc…”
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Investigating evolutionary models of leadership among recently settled Ethiopian hunter-gatherers
Garfield, Z. H., & Hagen, E. (2020) · Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.03.005 · Cited by 62 · see citing works
“Research among egalitarian and small-scale societies suggests leaders do in fact have greater access to relational and embodied wealth (Smith, Bliege Bird, & Bird, 2003; Von Rueden, 2014; Von Rueden, Gurven, Kaplan, & Stieglitz, 2014; Wiessner, 2002).”
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Can Anthropologists Distinguish Good and Poor Hunters? Implications for Hunting Hypotheses, Sharing Conventions, and Cultural Transmission
Hill, K. R., & Kintigh, K. (2009) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/597981 · Cited by 74 · see citing works
The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture
Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. T. (2020) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0498 · Cited by 73 · see citing works
Evolutionary Ecology of Human Pair-Bonds
Quinlan, R. J., & Quinlan, M. B. (2007) · Cross-Cultural Research · doi:10.1177/1069397106298893 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
“And among the !Kung there appear to be multiple benefits to sharing meat broadly among the camp (Wiessner 2002).”
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Logistical mobility reduces subsistence risk in hunting economies
Grove, M. L. (2010) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.02.017 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Why we heal: The evolution of psychological healing and implications for global mental health
Kohrt, B. A., Ottman, K. E., Panter‐Brick, C., Konner, M. J., & Patel, V. (2020) · Clinical Psychology Review · doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101920 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
Experimental Games and Games of Life among the Ju/’hoan Bushmen
Wiessner, P. (2009) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/595622 · Cited by 67 · see citing works
“Access to alternate residences and the resources of others was secured through more formal gift exchange partnerships called xaro (Wiessner 1982).”
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Food-sharing networks in Lamalera, Indonesia: status, sharing, and signaling
Nolin, D. A. (2012) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.11.003 · Cited by 67 · see citing works
“Nor are there formalized exchange partnerships such as the seal-fin partnerships of the Central Eskimo (Damas, 1972) or the hxaro partnerships of the !Kung (Wiessner, 2002).”
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Inter-group cooperation in humans and other animals
Robinson, E. J. H., & Barker, J. L. (2017) · Biology Letters · doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0793 · Cited by 66 · see citing works
“First, there are often repeated interactions between the same groups, leading to long-term inter-group relationships [11,16].”
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Sex Differences in Competitiveness: Hunter-Gatherer Women and Girls Compete Less in Gender-Neutral and Male-Centric Tasks
Apicella, C. L., & Dreber, A. (2014) · Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology · doi:10.1007/s40750-014-0015-z · Cited by 65 · see citing works
“Men are not only more competitive than women and respond physiologically to hunting as though it is a competition, but hunting ability is positively associated with increased reproductive success in a number of forager societies (Marlowe 1999; Hill and Hurtado 1996; Kaplan and Hill 1985; Wiessner 2002; Apicella 2014).”
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Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review
Takács, K., Gross, J., Testori, M., Letina, S., Kenny, A. R., Power, E. A., & Wittek, R. P. M. (2021) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B · doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0297 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Holocene artiodactyl population histories and large game hunting in the Wyoming Basin, USA
Byers, D. A., Smith, C. S., & Broughton, J. M. (2004) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2004.08.002 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
Costly signaling and the handicap principle in hunter‐gatherer research: A critical review
Stibbard‐Hawkes, D. N. E. (2019) · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews · doi:10.1002/evan.21767 · Cited by 62 · see citing works
The hierarchy of virtue: mutualism, altruism and signaling in Martu women's cooperative hunting
Bird, R. B., Scelza, B. A., Bird, D. W., & Smith, E. A. (2011) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.05.007 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Interhousehold Meat Sharing among Mayangna and Miskito Horticulturalists in Nicaragua
Koster, J. (2011) · Human Nature · doi:10.1007/s12110-011-9126-4 · Cited by 59 · see citing works
“Distributions of hunted game may be meant to signal not hunting ability but prosocial intent, which could result in greater assistance in times of need (Gurven et al. 2000a; see also Wiessner 2002).”
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Four-Field Co-evolutionary Model for Human Cognition: Variation in the Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic
Lombard, M., & Högberg, A. (2021) · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · doi:10.1007/s10816-020-09502-6 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
“These socio-technical expansions were probably facilitated through chains of short-distance interaction in foraging ranges and during aggregation and dispersal phases (e.g. Wadley 1987; Pearce 2018), similar to that of ethno-historically known foragers (Yellen 1997; Wiessner 2002).”
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Water borrowing is consistently practiced globally and is associated with water-related system failures across diverse environments
Rosinger, A. Y., Brewis, A., Wutich, A., Jepson, W. E., Staddon, C., Stoler, J. B., & Young, S. L. (2020) · Global Environmental Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102148 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
“These observations sit within a wider set of studies that show how humans in small-scale societies often devise self-organized systems for sharing critical and limited resources, such as food, which have played a large role in our evolution, cognitive and emotional function, and adaptation to new environments (Ember e…”
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Kinship intensity and the use of mental states in moral judgment across societies
Curtin, C. M., Barrett, H. C., Bolyanatz, A., Crittenden, A. N., Fessler, D. M. T., Fitzpatrick, S., Gurven, M., Kanovský, M., Kushnick, G., Laurence, S., et al. (2020) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.07.002 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
“Work among mobile hunter-gatherers suggests that extensive kin-based institutions may have culturally evolved to mitigate ecological risk by creating broad, geographically dispersed social networks that could act as social safety nets after local shocks (Wiessner, 1998, 2002).”
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First Peoples in a New World
Meltzer, D. J. (2021) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108632867 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
Hunter-gatherer males are more risk-seeking than females, even in late childhood
Apicella, C. L., Crittenden, A. N., & Tobolsky, V. A. (2017) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.01.003 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
“The fact that better hunters experience greater reproductive success in a number of these societies, including the Hadza (Apicella, 2014; Hawkes, 2001; Marlowe, 1999), the Ache (Hill & Hurtado, 1996; Kaplan & Hill, 1985) and !Kung (Wiessner, 2002) supports the notion that hunting ability, which requires a protracted p…”
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Cooperating to show that you care: costly helping as an honest signal of fitness interdependence
Barclay, P., Bird, R. B., Roberts, G., & Számadó, S. (2021) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0292 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Man the Showoff? Or the Ascendance of a Just-so-Story: A Comment on Recent Applications of Costly Signaling Theory in American Archaeology
Codding, B. F., & Jones, T. L. (2007) · American Antiquity · doi:10.2307/40035818 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Modelling mechanisms of social network maintenance in hunter–gatherers
Pearce, E. (2014) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.004 · Cited by 50 · see citing works
“…(Vanhaeren and d’Errico, 2006), extensions of kinship terminology and the associated obligations (Foley and Gamble, 2009), as well as the exchange of symbolic artefacts (Whallon, 2006; Wiessner, 2002), which provide an external memory aid for tracking the history of interpersonal interactions.”
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Understanding the nature of wealth and its effects on human fitness
Mulder, M. B., & Beheim, B. (2011) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0231 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
The Biocultural Evolution of Conflict Resolution Between Groups
Boehm, C. (2013) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199858996.003.0016 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
The Evolutionary Psychology of Human Mate Choice
Sefcek, J. A., Brumbach, B. H., Vásquez, G., & Miller, G. F. (2007) · Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality · doi:10.1300/j056v18n02_05 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
“Hunting and food sharing from hunting serves several functions, including costly signaling of hunting prowess, signaling social status, obligating reciprocity, attracting mates, and making political alliances (Patton 2005; Wiesser, 2002; Wood & Hill, 2000).”
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Household water insecurity and psychological distress in Eastern Ethiopia: Unfairness and water sharing as undertheorized factors
Brewis, A., Roba, K. T., Wutich, A., Manning, M., & Hassen, J. Y. (2021) · SSM - Mental Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100008 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Sit-and-wait versus active-search hunting: A behavioral ecological model of optimal search mode
Ross, C. T., & Winterhalder, B. P. (2015) · Journal of Theoretical Biology · doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.09.022 · Cited by 48 · see citing works
“…Corr E-m journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/yjtbi Sit-and-wait versus active-search hunting: A behavioral ecological model of optimal search mode Cody T. Ross a, Bruce Winterhalder a,b,n a Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, United States b Graduate Group in…”
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What Explains Differences in Men’s and Women’s Production?
Bird, R. B., Codding, B. F., & Bird, D. W. (2009) · Human Nature · doi:10.1007/s12110-009-9061-9 · Cited by 45 · see citing works
“…distribution of high-variance prey ends up being costly, it can serve as an honest signal of a hunter’s absolute generosity, and of his or her motivation to work for the public good (Bliege Bird et al. 2001; Boone 1998; Gurven et al. 2000; Sackett 1979; Smith and Bliege Bird 2005; Wiessner 2002).”
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Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting Reputation
Smith, K. M., Olkhov, Y. M., Puts, D. A., & Apicella, C. L. (2017) · Evolutionary Psychology · doi:10.1177/1474704917740466 · Cited by 50 · see citing works
“Kung (Wiessner, 2002), Lamalera (Alvard & Gillespie, 2004), Meriam (Bliege Bird, Smith, & Bird, 2001), and the Hadza (Apicella, 2014; Marlowe, 2001).”
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Hunter-Gatherer Children’s Object Play and Tool Use: An Ethnohistorical Analysis
Lew‐Levy, S., Andersen, M. M., Lavi, N., & Riede, F. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.824983 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
“…capture game by proxy (Trenton, 1998; Wadley, 2010); boats have given us access to new territories (Ferentinos et al., 2012; Wadley, 2013; Bjerck, 2016); and, the circulation of tools through trade and gifts has facilitated long-distance social relationships (Wiessner, 2002; Reckin and Todd, 2019).”
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Need-based transfers on a network: a model of risk-pooling in ecologically volatile environments
Hao, Y., Armbruster, D., Cronk, L., & Aktipis, A. (2014) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.12.003 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
“Consider, for example, the hxaro gift-giving system of the Ju/ hoansi of Namibia and Botswana (Wiessner, 1977, 1982, 2002).”
Evolutionary Strategies for Body Size
Little, M. A. (2020) · Frontiers in Endocrinology · doi:10.3389/fendo.2020.00107 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
Evolving views on the Pleistocene colonization of North America
Amick, D. (2017) · Quaternary International · doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.030 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation
Glowacki, L., & Lew‐Levy, S. (2021) · Current Opinion in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.026 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
“Reciprocity can include multiple currencies such as exchanging food for coalitional support [28], other items of value such as trade goods [29], delayed support when sick or injured [30], alloparenting [31], and teaching [32].”
Nicotinamide, NAD(P)(H), and Methyl-Group Homeostasis Evolved and Became a Determinant of Ageing Diseases: Hypotheses and Lessons from Pellagra
Williams, A. C., Hill, L. J., & Ramsden, D. B. (2012) · Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research · doi:10.1155/2012/302875 · Cited by 41 · see citing works
“Fighting and migrating were preferred over starving, and trading may have promoted specialisation, competition, and inequality including of access to meat [404].”
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Ethnographic and Modeled Costs of Long-Distance, Big-Game Hunting
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Authors: Wiessner, P.
Affiliations: University of Utah (US)
Corresponding author: Wiessner, Polly
ORCID: Wiessner, Polly
Venue: Evolution and Human Behavior
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2002-11
Volume: 23
Issue: 6
Pages: 407-436
ISSN: 1090-5138 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/s1090-5138(02)00096-x
OpenAlex: W2079467302
Cited by: 276
References: 115
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 9.13
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Evolution and Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
Keywords: big game hunting, Ju/'hoansi, food procurement, reciprocity, costly signaling, nepotism, cooperative breeding, political goals

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