Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization in Peru: Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the First and Second Millennia B.C. ed. by Richard L. Burger et al.

2022 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-237
Author(s):  
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Organization

scholarly journals Conceptual Notes on the Internal Business Environment Analysis and the Stra.Tech.Man Synthesis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Charis Vlados
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Environment Analysis ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
Socioeconomic Organization

This paper examines the theoretical contributions on the firm’s resources and the articulation of competitive advantages, the firm’s value chain analysis, and the comprehension of the “intangible nature” of the firm in the discipline of the internal organizational environment analysis. The aim is to synthesize these approaches from a critical perspective and attempt to enrich them conceptually based on the “biological perception” and “physiology” of the firm. To this end, the Stra.Tech.Man approach, which exploits interpretatively a synthesis of the evolutionary spheres of strategy, technology, and management for the “living” socioeconomic organization, seems capable of unifying the previous approaches analytically and enrich them.

Tea Party Toys? Classical Kisalian Grave Goods from the Upemba (D.R. Congo)

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre de Maret
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Age Sequence ◽  
Socioeconomic Organization ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Grave Goods

The continuous Iron Age sequence that connects the 10th century Kisalian in central Africa to the present day inhabitants of the area, the Luba, provides a rare opportunity to link archaeological data to ethnographic observations. Numerous Kisalian graves reflect the elaborate rituals and beliefs and the complex socioeconomic organization of that period. One of its intriguing aspects is the extensive use of various miniature objects as grave goods, for children and adults. The widespread Luba practice of making miniature objects for their children, as well as in connection with the spiritual world, is thus likely to date back many centuries and testifies to the symbolic qualities of miniatures.

The World's Longest-Lived Corporate Group: Lithic Analysis Reveals Prehistoric Social Organization near Lillooet, British Columbia

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hayden ◽  
Edward Bakewell ◽  
Rob Gargett
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Lithic Analysis ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Corporate Groups ◽  
Columbia Plateau ◽  
Lithic Assemblages ◽  
Stone Materials ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Socioeconomic Organization

The ability to identify distinct types of cherts and chalcedonies at the large prehistoric housepit site of Keatley Creek on the British Columbia plateau has made it possible to infer important aspects of socioeconomic organization from ca. 2400 to 1100 B.P. Each large housepit tested at the site appears to have a distinctive and characteristic composition of chert and chalcedony debitage which remains coherent over time (for at least 1,000 years). Three inferences concerning socioeconomic organization are derived from these observations: (1) residents of each large housepit probably foraged in distinctly different ranges during nonwinter months where they procured their raw stone materials; (2) residents of each large pithouse formed “residential corporate groups” that differed in their access to stone resources; and (3) the “residential corporate groups” that occupied large pithouses retained economic rights, corporate identity, and ownership of specific pithouse premises for unusually long time periods spanning more than a millennium. Differences between lithic assemblages of housepits were confirmed by three separate and independent analyses employing successively more sophisticated techniques.

scholarly journals Modeling Relationships Between Space, Movement, and Lithic Geometric Attributes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Davies ◽  
Simon Holdaway ◽  
Patricia C. Fanning
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
New South ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Import And Export ◽  
Socioeconomic Organization

Evidence for changes in human mobility is fundamental to interpretations of transitions in human socioeconomic organization. Showing changes in mobility requires both archaeological proxies that are sensitive to movement and a clear understanding of how different mobility configurations influence their patterning. This study uses computer simulation to explore how different combinations of reduction, selection, transport, and discard of stone artifacts generate patterning in the “cortex ratio,” a geometric proxy used to demonstrate movement at the assemblage level. A case study from western New South Wales, Australia, shows how cortex ratios are used to make inferences about movement. Results of the exploratory simulation show that redundancy in movement between discards reduces variability in cortex ratios, while mean assemblage values can be attributed to the relative proportions of artifacts carried into and out of the assemblages. These results suggest that raw material availability is a potentially crucial factor in determining what kinds of mobility are visible in assemblages, whereby different access to raw material can shift the balance of import and export of stone in an otherwise undirected movement configuration. These findings are used to contextualize distributions of cortex ratios from the raw material–rich study area, prompting suggestions for further fieldwork.

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