Macroevolution in Human Prehistory Evolutionary Theory and Processual Archaeology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Prentiss, Anna (Editor), Kuijt, Ian (Editor), Chatters, James C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

Cultural evolution, much like general evolution, works from the assumption that cultures are descendent from much earlier ancestors. Human culture manifests itself in forms ranging from the small bands of hunters, through intermediate scale complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, to the high density u...