Pattern and process in cultural evolution
By: edited by Stephen Shennan.
Contributors: Shennan, Stephen.
Series: Origins of human behavior and culture -- no. 2
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780520255999
Subjects: Human evolution; Anthropology; Human ecology; Human beings -- Origin; Archaeology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding cultural transmission / Stephen Shennan; title: Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution / Alex Mesoudi and Michael J. O'Brien; title: Metaphors of cultural change : towards a realistic model of communication / Robert Aunger; title: Mechanisms of transmission and material culture patterns in craft skills / Robert Hosfield; title: Linking pattern to process in cultural evolution : explaining material culture diversity among the northern Khanty of northwest Siberia / Peter Jordan; title: Tangled trees : modelling material culture evolution as host-associate co-speciation / Felix Riede; title: The evolution of material culture diversity among Iranian tribal populations / Jamshid Tehrani & Mark Collard; title: Evolutionary explanation and the record of interest : using evolutionary archaeology and dual-inheritance theory to explain the archaeological record / Ethan Cochrane; title: Identifying iron production lineages : a case study in northwest Wales / Michael Charlton; title: A quantitative analysis of macroevolutionary patterning in technological evolution : bicycle design from 1800 to 2000 / Mark Lake & Jay Venti; title: Innovation diffusion and travelling waves / James Steele; title: Explaining global patterns in lower palaeolithic technology : simulations of hominin dispersal and cultural transmission using 'stepping out' / Sam Smith, John Hughes and Steven Mithen; title: Population history, abrupt climate change and evolution of arrowhead technology in mesolithic south Scandinavia / Kevan Edinborough; title: Case studies in technological evolution : innovation rates and experimentation in and with the archaeological record / Ben Fitzhugh and A. Kate Trusler; title: Mind the bonding gap : constraints on the evolution of hominin societies / Robin Dunbar; title: Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation : a maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices / Laura Fortunato and Ruth Mace; title: Parent-offspring conflict in marriage : implications for social evolution and material culture among the Ju'hoansi bushmen / Polly Wiessner; title: Prestige goods and the formation of political hierarchy-a costly signalling model / Aimee Plourde; title: Population and warfare : a test of the Turchin model in Puebloan societies / Timothy A. Kohler, Sarah Cole & Stanca Ciupe; title: An ecological model for the emergence of institutionalized social hierarchies on California's northern Channel Islands / Douglas J. Kennett ... [et al.]; title: Intensification and simplification at the pre-pottery and pottery neolithic transition / Ian Kuijt.