Feasting is one of humanity's most universal and unique social behaviors. Although evidence for feasting is common in the early agricultural societies of the Neolithic, evidence in pre-Neolithic contexts is more elusive. We found clear evidence for feasting on wild cattle and tortoises at Hilazon Tachtit cave, a Late Epipaleolithic (12,000 calibrated years B.P.) burial site in Israel. This incl...

Fifty-nine of 73 families of children referred for treatment of cancer during 1980 co-operated in a study of the financial consequences of the illness. Except for two social class I families who declined to take part, the sample was representative of the childhood cancer population and families were of similar socioeconomic status to the general population. During the first, inpatient, week wee...

We argue that tastes can be understood as the result of utility maximizing behavior in the distant past. This previous maximizing behavior may have long-lived consequences, which we usually take as tastes or preferences. As the old maximization problem depends critically on old relative prices, we use old relative prices to endogenize tastes, overcoming many of the criticisms of the taste forma...

The traditional Mizo had various community feasts and celebrations, which were performed at specific time period of the year. three principle celebrations are Chapchar Kut (celebration spring), Mim when yields other than paddy is first procured), Pawl harvest). adored social gathering bustles, likewise, was a typical element their public activity. Here we will look into what thought about funda...

This article addresses the assumption that mortuary record of Prepalatial and Protopalatial Crete (3000–1800 BCE) is dominated by secondary burials its corollary Minoans practiced double funerals. First, ethnographic historical data are employed to examine diverse types funerary, post-funerary non-funerary manipulations produce bone deposits. Then, Sissi cemetery, located in northern used from ...