Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies

Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies

Professional religious specialists centralised religious authority in early human societies and represented some of the earliest instances of formalised social leadership. These individuals played a central role in the emergence of organised religion and transitions to more stratified human societie...

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Main Authors: Joseph Watts, Elise M. Hamerslag, Cassie Sprules, John H. Shaver, Robin I. M. Dunbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Human Sciences
Subjects:
Cultural evolution
hunter–gatherer
phylogenetic comparative methods
religious specialists
shaman
Social
anthropology
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X22000172/type/journal_article

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