Brian Hayden

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PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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Brian Hayden's Published Works

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Food Sharing Among Ache Foragers: Tests of Explanatory Hypotheses [and Comments and Reply] (1985) (644)
The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply] (1982) (442)
Nimrods, Piscators, Pluckers, and Planters: The Emergence of Food Production (1990) (371)
Anthropological Applications of Optimal Foraging Theory: A Critical Review [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (345)
Where the garbage goes: Refuse disposal in the Maya Highlands (1983) (336)
Pathways to Power (1995) (312)
Feasts : archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power (2002) (271)
Maritime Hunter-Gatherers: Ecology and Prehistory [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (268)
The Identification of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation Sites: The Case of Altamira [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (267)
Practical and prestige technologies: The evolution of material systems (1998) (266)
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply] (1979) (172)
Richman, Poorman, Beggarman, Chief: The Dynamics of Social Inequality (2001) (159)
Research and Development in the Stone Age: Technological Transitions among Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (149)
Were luxury foods the first domesticates? Ethnoarchaeological perspectives from Southeast Asia (2003) (144)
Palaeolithic reflections : lithic technology and ethnographic excavation among Australian Aborigines (1982) (138)
The corporate group as an archaeological unit (1982) (138)
A Century of Feasting Studies (2011) (136)
The cultural capacities of Neandertals: a review and re-evaluation (1993) (128)
Evaluating Lithic Strategies and Design Criteria (1996) (116)
Confusion in the Bipolar World: Bashed Pebbles and Splintered Pieces (1980) (114)
The Proof Is in the Pudding (2009) (107)
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (96)
What Was Brewing in the Natufian? An Archaeological Assessment of Brewing Technology in the Epipaleolithic (2013) (96)
From Chopper to Celt: The Evolution of Resharpening Techniques (1987) (93)
The Plateau Interaction Sphere and Late Prehistoric Cultural Complexity (1997) (83)
The Power of Feasts: From Prehistory to the Present (2014) (80)
Big Man, Big Heart? A Mesoamerican View of the Emergence of Complex Society (1990) (80)
Prehistoric Rites of Passage: A Comparative Study of Transegalitarian Hunter–Gatherers (1997) (76)
The structure of material systems : ethnoarchaeology in the Maya highlands (1989) (74)
Funerals As Feasts: Why Are They So Important? (2009) (69)
Lithic studies among the contemporary highland Maya (1987) (66)
Alliances and ritual ecstasy: human responses to resource stress (1987) (64)
An Evolutionary Approach to the Southeast Asian Cultural Sequence [and Comments and Reply] (1976) (61)
Interaction Parameters and the Demise of Paleo-Indian Craftsmanship (1982) (60)
The World's Longest-Lived Corporate Group: Lithic Analysis Reveals Prehistoric Social Organization near Lillooet, British Columbia (1996) (56)
Traditional metate manufacturing in Guatemala using chipped stone tools (1987) (56)
NEANDERTAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE (2012) (55)
The dynamics of wealth and poverty in the Transegalitarian societies of Southeast Asia (2001) (50)
Site Structure, Kinship, and Sharing in Aboriginal Australia Implications for Archaeology (1991) (49)
Prehistoric Cultural Collapse in the Lillooet Area (1991) (48)
Who Benefits from Complexity? A View from Futuna (2010) (47)
The Use of Chipped Lithic Material in the Contemporary Maya Highlands (1981) (47)
A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau: Traditional Stl'Atl'Imx Resource Use (2002) (45)
Ancient DNA investigation of prehistoric salmon resource utilization at Keatley Creek, British Columbia, Canada (2005) (43)
Interaction inferences in archaeology and learning frameworks of the maya (1984) (40)
Astronomy in the Upper Palaeolithic? (2011) (38)
Archaeology: The Science of Once and Future Things (1992) (37)
The Power of Ritual in Prehistory (2018) (35)
Reconstructing prehistoric socioeconomies from paleoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological data: An example from the British Columbia Plateau (1996) (33)
Observations on the prehistoric social and economic structure of the North American Plateau (1997) (33)
ARE EMIC TYPES RELEVANT TO ARCHAEOLOGY (1984) (30)
Did Neanderthals eat inner bark? (2003) (29)
The Pithouses of Keatley Creek: Complex Hunter-Gatherers of the Northwest Plateau (2002) (26)
Social characteristics of early Austronesian colonizers (1983) (26)
Big Man, Big Heart? The Political Role of Aggrandizers in Egalitarian and Transegalitarian Societies (2011) (25)
Complex Hunter–Gatherers in Interior British Columbia (1985) (25)
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca: A Regional Perspective [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (24)
Insights into early lithic technologies from ethnography (2015) (24)
The Keatley Creek Site and Corporate Group Archaeology (1993) (24)
The Emergence of Large Villages and Large Residential Corporate Group Structures among Complex Hunter-Gatherers at Keatley Creek (2005) (23)
Past to present uses of stone tools and their effects on assemblage characteristics in the Maya highlands (1987) (23)
Fishing and Foraging: Marine Resources in the Upper Paleolithic of France (1985) (22)
Dingoes: Pets or Producers? (2009) (22)
Specialization in the Paleolithic (1988) (19)
On Territoriality and Sedentism (2000) (18)
Sex, symmetry and silliness in the bifacial world (2009) (13)
Fishing and Foraging (1987) (13)
What Were They Doing in the Oldowan? an Ethnoarchaeological Perspective on the Origins of Human Behavior (2008) (12)
The Ancient Past of Keatley Creek (2017) (10)
Odorous differentiation and variability in the sexual division of labor among hunter/gatherers (1985) (9)
Feasting in Southeast Asia (2016) (9)
Competitive Feasting before Cultivation? (2014) (8)
Hunting and feasting (2002) (7)
Resource Models of Inter-Assemblage Variability (1986) (7)
Integrating spatial data display with virtual reconstruction (1994) (7)
Pharmacological Influences on the Neolithic Transition (2015) (6)
A Fluted Point from the Guatemalan Highlands (1980) (6)
Cultural Collapses in the Northwest: A Reply to Ian Kuijt (2003) (6)
Traditional Corporate Group Economics in Southeast Asia: An Ethnographic Study with Archaeological Implications (2011) (5)
Our ‘daily bread’?: The origins of grinding grains and breadmaking (2016) (5)
Corporate Groups and Secret Societies in the Early Neolithic (2012) (5)
Archaeological Pitfalls of Storage (2020) (4)
Are Burials Socially Integrative? The Natufian Case (2017) (4)
Site Formation Processes at Keatley Creek (2017) (3)
Bedrock features: An overview (2017) (3)
Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia. Nancy Turner, Laurence Thompson, M. Terry Thompson, and Annie York. Memoir No. 3. Royal British Columbia Museum, 1990. viii + 335 pp., figures. Can ’15.00 (paper). (1991) (3)
Competition, Labor, and Complex Hunter-Gatherers (2020) (3)
Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory (2021) (3)
Implications for Archaeology (2018) (2)
Comment on Hayden's Resource Models of Inter-Assemblage Variability/Reply to Conaty (1987) (2)
Stone Tool Use at Cerros: The Ethnoarchaeological and Use- Wear Evidence. Suzanne M. Lewenstein. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1987. viii + 228 pp., references, indices. $42.50 (cloth). (1989) (2)
Inventory System Perspective of Ground Stone Artifact Use-Wear at the Joint Site (1979) (2)
Trend, Tradition and Turmoil: What Happened to the Southeastern Archaic? Anthropological Papers 93. David Hurst Thomas , Matthew C. Sanger (2011) (2)
Lithic Typology (2017) (1)
Feasting in Early States and Empires (2014) (1)
More on the Paleolithic/Mesolithic Transition (1982) (1)
An Ethnoarchaeological Odyssey: Or, How Ethnoarchaeology Changed My Perspective on Life (2017) (1)
Beyond Bones:: Ritual and Social Secrets in Archaeological Remains (2017) (1)
Book Excerpt: How Religion Changed in the Bronze Age∗ (2004) (1)
Cognata, Capta and Data: Hunting for Meaning: Hunting for Meaning (2001) (1)
Dating the Cassis rufa shell from the Mousterian levels of the Grotte du Prince, Monaco (1993) (1)
Magnetic Survey at the Draper Site, Pickering Township, Ontario (2017) (0)
What Was Brewing in the Natufian? An Archaeological Assessment of Brewing Technology in the Epipaleolithic (2012) (0)
Resources, Rivalry, and Reproduction: The Influence of Basic Resource Characteristics on Reproductive Behavior (2019) (0)
The Ecology of the Draper Site (2017) (0)
The Power of Feasts: Transegalitarian Hunter/Gatherers (2014) (0)
Chapter 10.13: Excavations at Housepit 104 (2017) (0)
The Power of Feasts: References Cited (2014) (0)
FEASTING IN SOUTH SULAWESI 2000 PRELIMINARY REPORT (2004) (0)
Simple Hunter/Gatherers (2014) (0)
Organization of the Volumes (2017) (0)
Chapter 8: Variations in Sediment Characteristics across Floors (2017) (0)
An Archaeological Evaluation of the Gimbutas Paradigm (2012) (0)
Chapter 3: Mixing of Projectile Point Types within Housepit Rim and Floor Strata at Keatley Creek (2017) (0)
Chapter 1: Lithic Typology (2017) (0)
Early Cultural Developments and Adaptations in Hunter/Gatherer Communities: A Case Study from Keatley Creek on the Canadian Plateau (2015) (0)
Chapter 12: Keatley Creek Lithic Strategies and Design (2017) (0)
Reply (2009) (0)
Hunting on Heaven and Earth (2013) (0)
Chapter 10.11: Excavation Summary of Housepit 58 (2017) (0)
On the Paleolithic/Mesolithic Transition (1982) (0)
Chapter 10.15: Excavations at Housepit 106 (2017) (0)
Keatley Creek Lithic Strategies and Design (2017) (0)
AGRICULTURE | Social Consequences (2008) (0)
Chapter 1: The Opening of Keatley Creek (2017) (0)
Foragers or « Feasters ? » Inequalities in the Upper Palaeolithic (2021) (0)
Chapter 9: The Analysis of Mesodebitage and Mesofauna at Keatley Creek (2017) (0)
2 The Coyote People (2017) (0)
Chapter 11.7: Summary: Extra-Housepit Excavation 5 (2017) (0)
Chapter 2: Dating Deposits at Keatley Creek (2017) (0)
Chapter 11.21: Extra-Housepit Excavation 20: A Large Roasting Pit (2017) (0)
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory by Cynthia Elle (2012) (0)
Inequality in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant (2020) (0)
ARCH IVE 5, AND FEASTING AT TH E PALACE OF NESTOR (2004) (0)
Who Benefits ? The View from Futuna (2004) (0)
The World of Secret Societies: Dynamics from the Northwest (2015) (0)
Carbon Monoxide Oxidation on Model Planar Titania Supported Platinum Nanoparticles Catalyst (2022) (0)
Figures and Photographs (2017) (0)
Jean Clottes & Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak. Des images pour les dieux: art rupestre et art tribal dans le centre de l'Inde. 2013. 148 pages, 218 colour illustrations, 1 map. 2013. Paris: Errance; 978-2-87772-559-0 hardcover €39. (2014) (0)
Cave Art. Jean Clottes. 2008. Phaidon Press, London. 327 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN-13 978-0-7148- 4592-0. (2010) (0)
I Complex Hunter-Gatherers and the Keatley Creek Site (2017) (0)
Chapter 17: Site Formation Processes at Keatley Creek (2017) (0)
What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity. JEAN CLOTTES. 2016. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 207 pp. + 30 figs. $18.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-226-26663-3. (2017) (0)
The Complex Hunter/Gatherers of the American Northwest (2018) (0)
The Opening of Keatley Creek : Research Problems and Background (2017) (0)
The Draper and White Sites (2017) (0)
Psychology in Archaeology (2019) (0)
9 Turning of the Sun at Coyote's Great House (2017) (0)
Case study: integrating spatial data display with virtual reconstruction (1994) (0)
THE GODDESS AND THE ALPHABET: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN WORD AND IMAGE (2012) (0)
Communal versus Competitive Feasting: Comment on Kassabaum (2020) (0)
Chapter 9: Housepit 90 Excavations (2017) (0)
Chapter 10.16: Test Excavations of Housepit 107 (2017) (0)
Chapter 10.14: Excavations at Housepit 105 (2017) (0)
Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 12: Plateau. Deward Walker, Jr. (1999) (0)
Chapter 10.18: Excavations in Housepit 109 (2017) (0)
The Power of Feasts: Domesticating Plants and Animals for Feasts (2014) (0)
Clive Bonsall (ed.). The Mesolithic in Europe: papers presented at the Third Internotional Symposium , Edinburgh 1985. xii + 645 pages, over 400 figures & tables. 1989. Edinburgh: John Donald; ISBN 0-85976-205-X hardback £35. (1990) (0)
Variations in Sediment Characteristics across Floors (2017) (0)
Chapter 11: Socioeconomic Inferences from Floor Distributions of Lithics at Keatley Creek (2017) (0)
8 Big Man, Little Man, Beggar Man, Feast (2017) (0)