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TOWARDS A GENEALOGY OF THE CONCEPT OF “PALEOLITHIC MOBILIARY ART” Oscar Moro Abadía and Manuel R. González Morales Analyses of Paleolithic art have often presupposed the existence of two distinct and indisputable categories: parietal art (or cave art) and mobiliary art (or portable art). We question this distinction. In this article, we analyze the concept of “Paleolithic mobiliary art”—a term which not only refers to the size and portability of the art that it intends to describe, but which also is implicitly shaped by the different meanings and connotations of the late nineteenth-century definition of primitive art. A NEW TYPOLOGY OF FOOD-SHARING PRACTICES AMONG HUNTER-GATHERERS, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON INUIT EXAMPLES Nobuhiro Kishigami This article first examines several anthropological studies to illustrate some substantial limitations of the concepts of “reciprocity” and “exchange” as applied to food sharing among hunter-gatherer societies. I then propose a new typology of food sharing for identification, classification, description, and comparison. The new typology includes nine types of sharing: giving based on rules, voluntary giving, demand giving, exchange based on rules, voluntary exchange, demand exchange, redistribution based on rules, voluntary redistribution, and demand redistribution. Finally, I demonstrate the utility of the new typology by using it to analyze food sharing among two Inuit groups in the Canadian Arctic. THE PROTO-NUMIC KINSHIP SYSTEM Per Hage Bojka Milicic Mauricio Mixco Michael J. P. Nichols On the basis of historical linguistic and ethnohistorical evidence, the Proto-Numic kinship system can be reconstructed as Kariera (Dravidianate) in type based on a rule of bilateral cross-cousin marriage. The reconstruction is consistent with semantic shifts in Numic kinship terminologies and with universal theories of kinship evolution which take Dravidianate systems as a starting point and assume irreversible drifts away from this point. The dialect continua of the Numic language family imply the presence of regional marriage networks as hypothesized for many other hunter-gatherer societies. REVIEW ARTICLE: WHAT WAS TEOTIHUACAN DOING IN THE MAYA REGION? Robert S. Santley Review of The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction, edited by Geoffrey E. Braswell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003, xviii + 423 pp. $40.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. Since the 1930s, archaeologists have discovered startling evidence of cultural interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great Central Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan. This book reports on these findings on a case-by-case basis and offers new interpretations concerning the range of those interactions. My review of this work is in two parts. First, I summarize the results reported. I then compare them with recent findings from Matacapan, a site in southern Veracruz long known to have been in contact with Teotihuacan. Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation.
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