Burying power : New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Baja, southern Jordan

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221171" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0221171</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Burying power : New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Baja, southern Jordan

Original language description

In 2016, an extraordinary burial of a young adult individual was discovered at the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB, 7,500–6,900 BCE) settlement of Baja in southern Jordan. This burial has exceptional grave goods and an elaborate grave construction. It suggests discussing anew reconstructions of early Neolithic social structures. In this article, we will summarize former theories on the emergence of leadership and hierarchies and present a multivariate model according to which anthropological and archaeological data of the burial will be analyzed. In conclusion, we surmise that early Neolithic hierarchization in southern Jordan was based on corporate pathways to power rather than self-interested aggrandizers. However, some aspects of the burial point to regional exchange networks of prestige goods, a trait considered characteristic of network based leadership. In line with anthropological and sociological research, we argue that pathways to power should be considered as relational processes that can be understood only when comparing traits of the outstanding person to her/his social environment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLOS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

1932-6203

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

34

Pages from-to

1-34

UT code for WoS article

000485052300024

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071415373