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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F19%3A00111411" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/19:00111411 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221171" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221171</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

PLOS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

1932-6203

Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

8

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

34

Strana od-do

1-34

Kód UT WoS článku

000485052300024

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85071415373