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