Biological Kinship, Postmarital Residence and the Emergence of Cemetery Formalisation at Prehistoric Marathon

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Prevedorou ◽  
C. M. Stojanowski
Keyword(s):  
Postmarital Residence

Dynamics of Postmarital Residence among the Hadza

Human Nature ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 128-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Wood ◽  
Frank W. Marlowe
Keyword(s):  
Postmarital Residence

Postmarital Residence Practices in the Windover Population: Sex-Based Dental Variation as an Indicator of Patrilocality

2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula D. Tomczak ◽  
Joseph F. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Isolation By Distance ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
Postmarital Residence ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

This study examines postmarital residence patterns at the Windover site, an Early Archaic occupation located in east-central Florida. Residence patterns are assessed using a population genetics model based on isolation by distance and migration matrix methods. Variation in nonmetric dental traits is examined among a group of 40 adult males and 43 adult females. The sex with the higher within-group variance is considered the more mobile sex, thereby providing a possible reflection of residential patterns. Results indicate that females are almost twice as variable as males, thus suggesting patrilocality. However, this result is not statistically significant at the .05 probability level. Additional lines of evidence are assessed in conjunction with dental data. Specifically, ethnographic data indicate that subsistence and sexual division of labor are important factors related to social organization, including residence. Although these lines of evidence can be used to support the dental data and patrilocality, they are not conclusive. Future studies of activity patterns, disease, mortuary remains, and material culture may help to clarify the issue of postmarital residence patterns at Windover.

Postmarital Residence Analysis

2016 ◽  
pp. 335-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.W. Konigsberg ◽  
S.R. Frankenberg
Keyword(s):  
Postmarital Residence

scholarly journals A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups

2014 ◽  
Vol 281 (1788) ◽  
pp. 20140580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Snopkowski ◽  
Cristina Moya ◽  
Rebecca Sear
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Intergenerational Conflict ◽  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Age At Menopause ◽  
Indonesia Family Life Survey ◽  
History Of ◽  
Postmarital Residence ◽  
Using Data

Menopause remains an evolutionary puzzle, as humans are unique among primates in having a long post-fertile lifespan. One model proposes that intergenerational conflict in patrilocal populations favours female reproductive cessation. This model predicts that women should experience menopause earlier in groups with an evolutionary history of patrilocality compared with matrilocal groups. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, we test this model at multiple timescales: deep historical time, comparing age at menopause in ancestrally patrilocal Chinese Indonesians with ancestrally matrilocal Austronesian Indonesians; more recent historical time, comparing age at menopause in ethnic groups with differing postmarital residence within Indonesia and finally, analysing age at menopause at an individual-level, assuming a woman facultatively adjusts her age at menopause based on her postmarital residence. We find a significant effect only at the intermediate timescale where, contrary to predictions, ethnic groups with a history of multilocal postnuptial residence (where couples choose where to live) have the slowest progression to menopause, whereas matrilocal and patrilocal ethnic groups have similar progression rates. Multilocal residence may reduce intergenerational conflicts between women, thus influencing reproductive behaviour, but our results provide no support for the female-dispersal model of intergenerational conflict as an explanation of menopause.

scholarly journals Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (49) ◽  
pp. 12910-12915 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Stephen Lansing ◽  
Cheryl Abundo ◽  
Guy S. Jacobs ◽  
Elsa G. Guillot ◽  
Stefan Thurner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Sufficient Time ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Directional Movement ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Postmarital Residence ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
Over Time

Languages are transmitted through channels created by kinship systems. Given sufficient time, these kinship channels can change the genetic and linguistic structure of populations. In traditional societies of eastern Indonesia, finely resolved cophylogenies of languages and genes reveal persistent movements between stable speech communities facilitated by kinship rules. When multiple languages are present in a region and postmarital residence rules encourage sustained directional movement between speech communities, then languages should be channeled along uniparental lines. We find strong evidence for this pattern in 982 individuals from 25 villages on two adjacent islands, where different kinship rules have been followed. Core groups of close relatives have stayed together for generations, while remaining in contact with, and marrying into, surrounding groups. Over time, these kinship systems shaped their gene and language phylogenies: Consistently following a postmarital residence rule turned social communities into speech communities.

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