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The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap: Women’s and Men’s Voting Behavior in Global Perspective
Author(s)Inglehart, Ronald; Norris, Pippa
AbstractThis article evaluates a cross-cultural archaeological model linking the rise of formal cemeteries among hunter-gatherers to subsistence and settlement patterns, using the Mesolithic of the Ganges valley as a case study. Faunal data, including ageable deer teeth, and grave orientation in relation to solar variation suggest that the sites of Mahadaha and Damdama were logistically organized and residentially stable. The archaeological evidence thus supports the Saxe-Goldstein formulation on the interrelationship between cemeteries and corporate group rights to crucial resources (aquatic resources in the Gangetic case). It is suggested that this economic approach should be complemented by an understanding based on cultural beliefs of past societies.
IssueNo4
Pages441-463
ArticleAccess to Article
SourceInternational Political Science Review
VolumeNo21
PubDateSeptember 2000
ISBN_ISSN0192-5121


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