Pattern and process in cultural evolution /

Pattern and process in cultural evolution /

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Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:English
Series:Origins of human behavior and culture ; 2
Origins of human behavior and culture ; 2.
Subject:
Human evolution.
Anthropology.
Human ecology.
Human beings -- Origin.
Archaeology.
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
Human beings -- Origin.
Human ecology.
Human evolution.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205744
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Other authors / contributors:Shennan, Stephen.
ISBN:9780520943360
0520943368
9780520255999
0520255992
1282360906
9781282360907
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework, such as dual inheritance theory or human behavioral ecology, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes empirical analysis and includes authors who employ a range of backgrounds and methods.
Other form:Print version: Pattern and process in cultural evolution. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009 9780520255999
Table of Contents:
  • Pattern and process in cultural evolution : an introduction / Stephen Shennan
  • Understanding cultural transmission
  • Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution / Alex Mesoudi and Michael J. O'Brien
  • Human communication as niche construction / Robert Aunger
  • Modes of transmission and material culture patterns in craft skills / Robert Hosfield
  • Linking pattern to process in cultural evolution : explaining material culture diversity among the northern Khanty of northwest Siberia / Peter Jordan
  • Tangled trees : modeling material culture evolution as host-associate cospeciation / Felix Riede
  • The evolution of material culture diversity among Iranian tribal populations / Jamshid J. Tehrani and Mark Collard
  • Evolutionary explanation and the record of interest : using evolutionary archaeology and dual inheritance theory to explain the archaeological record / Ethan E. Cochrane
  • Identifying iron production lineages : a case study in northwest Wales / Michael F. Charlton
  • Testing evolutionary hypotheses
  • Quantitative analysis of macroevolutionary patterning in technological evolution : bicycle design from 1800 to 2000 / Mark W. Lake and Jay Venti
  • Innovation diffusion and traveling waves / James Steele
  • Explaining global patterns in lower palaeolithic technology : simulations of hominin dispersal and cultural transmission using stepping out / Sam Smith, John Hughes, and Steven Mithen
  • Population history and the evolution of mesolithic arrowhead technology in south Scandinavia / Kevan Edinborough
  • Experimentation and innovation in the archaeological record : a case study in technological evolution from Kodiak, Alaska / Ben Fitzhugh and A. Kate Trusler
  • Social evolution
  • Mind the bonding gap : constraints on the evolution of hominin societies / R.I.M. Dunbar
  • Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation : a maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices / Laura Fortunato and Ruth Mace
  • Parent-offspring conflict in marriage : implications for social evolution and material culture among the Ju/'hoansi bushmen / Polly Wiessner
  • Prestige goods and the formation of political hierarchy : a costly signaling model / Aimée M. Plourde
  • Population and warfare : a test of the Turchin model in Pueblo societies / Timothy A. Kohler, Sarah Cole, and Stanca Ciupe
  • An ecological model for the emergence of institutionalized social hierarchies on California's northern Channel Islands / Douglas J. Kennett [and others]
  • Population, sociopolitical simplification, and cultural evolution of Levantine neolithic villages / Ian Kuijt.

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