Cooperative breeding in the humans: a biosociocultural approach

Keilyn Rodríguez-Sánchez, Scott Hergenrother — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The article offers a hermeneutical bibliographic study of a selection of 73 texts to help better understand the place of cooperative parenting in the evolutionary history of humanity, providing evidence for the bio-social foundation for cooperative and altruistic behavior found among human beings and its selective role in human fitness. The essential role of intergenerational, intra-family, inter-group and intercultural cooperative relationships for human upbringing is evident. From biosociocultural diversity, the theoretical trends associated with the understanding of cooperative behavior in parenting are shown. In addition, the most outstanding authors and the most frequent methods in the study of the variables associated with this cooperative parenting behavior are presented. In this way, it is possible to make visible the process of human upbringing as an essentially social dynamic, where altruistic collaboration has generated a diversity of cultural strategies.

Death on the east coast of the Gulf of Nicoya: mortuary treatments at the Orocú site (P-328 Or) between 300 and 800 AD.

Javier Fallas Fallas, Juan V. Guerrero — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The objective of this document focused on making a first approach to the mortuary treatments of the Orocú monument (P-328 Or) associated with the Bagaces period (300-800 AD). These spaces were studied as a material expression of the reality of their social organization, and attention was paid to the places intended to bury people, the ways in which the bodies were arranged, as well as the characteristics, quantities, and spatial distributions between them of the offerings placed at burials. The methodological strategy included field work carried out in 1997 and the identification of the different materials associated with the contexts. In Orocú it was determined that inside mounds 7 and 13 the burial of individuals took place in graves made directly in the ground and which were then covered with earth and stones. In mound 7 it was established that members of the community were buried without restriction of sex or age, from infants to adults, but the burial of an infant stood out who presented the largest collection of offerings, it had the only object in green stone and the placement of several ceramic offerings; highlighting the vessels from the Central Valley. The burials in Orocú were carried out at different times from 300 to 800 AD, but in mound 7 the last event was recorded between 597 and 670 AD, data obtained from a bone sample of an individual from the only multiple burial, which was made up of seven people placed between articulated and inarticulate. This radiometric data is the first dating of a funerary space from sites located on the east coast of the Gulf of Nicoya.

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Cooperative breeding in the humans: a biosociocultural approach

Death on the east coast of the Gulf of Nicoya: mortuary treatments at the Orocú site (P-328 Or) between 300 and 800 AD.