Macroevolution in Human Prehistory Evolutionary Theory and Processual Archaeology /

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...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Prentiss, Anna (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kuijt, Ian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Chatters, James C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • I. Issues in Macroevolutionary Theory
  • Proximate Causation, Group Selection, and the Evolution of Hierarchical Human Societies: System, Process, and Pattern
  • Landscape Learning in Relation to Evolutionary Theory
  • #x201C;The Multiplication of Forms:#x201D; Bering Strait Harpoon Heads as a Demic and Macroevolutionary Proxy
  • II. Macroevolutionary Approaches to Cultural Change
  • The Emergence of New Socioeconomic Strategies in the Middle and Late Holocene Pacific Northwest Region of North America
  • Testing the Morphogenesist Model of Primary State Formation: The Zapotec Case
  • Evolutionary Biology and the Emergence of Agriculture: The Value of Co-opted Models of Evolution in the Study of Culture Change
  • III. Cultural Diversification, Stasis and Extinction as Macroevolutionary Processes
  • A Macroevolutionary Perspective on the Archaeological Record of North America
  • Cultural Stasis and Change in Northern North America: A Macroevolutionary Perspective
  • Niche Construction, Macroevolution, and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East
  • IV. Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology
  • Macroevolutionary Theory and Archaeology: Is There a Big Picture?
  • Material Cultural Macroevolution.