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The Origin of Human Social Institutions

Volume published 2001

Preface
W G Runciman, pages ix

From Sedentary Foragers to Village Hierarchies: The Emergence of Social Institutions
Ofer Bar-Yosef, pages 1-38

Different Kinds of History: On the Nature of Lives and Change in Central Europe, c. 6000 to the Second Millennium BC
Alasdair Whittle, pages 39-68

The Birth of Architecture
Richard Bradley, pages 69-92

Commodification and Institution in Group-Oriented and Individualizing Societies
Colin Renfrew, pages 93-117

Social Competition, Social Intelligence, and Why the Bugis Know More about Cooking than about Nutrition
Jerome H Barkow, Nurpudji Astuti Taslilm, Veni Hadju, Elly Ishak, Faisal Attamimi, Sani Silwana, Djunaidi M Dachlan, Ramli & A Yahya, pages 119-147

How and Why Did Fairness Norms Evolve?
Ken Binmore, pages 149-170

Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins of Human Social Institutions
Robert A Foley, pages 171-195

Institutional Evolution in the Holocene: The Rise of Complex Societies
J S Richardson & Robert Boyd, pages 197-234

From Nature to Culture, from Culture to Society
W G Runciman, pages 235-254

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