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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Nature of Culture
    sub title: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany
  name:
    name part: Haidle, Miriam N.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Conard, Nicholas J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bolus, Michael.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 151 p. 38 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions. It is contrasted with existing approaches from primatology and behavioural ecology; influential factors like differences in life history and demography are discussed; and the different stages of the development of cultural capacity in human evolution are traced in the archaeological record. The volume provides a synthetic view on a) the different factors and mechanisms of cultural development, and b) expansions of cultural capacities in human evolution beyond the capacities observed in animal culture so far. It is an important topic because only a volume of contributions from different disciplines can yield the necessary breadth to discuss the complex subject. The model introduced and discussed originates in the naturalist context and tries to open the discussion to some culturalist aspects, thus the publication in a series with archaeological and biological emphasis is apt. As a new development the synthetic model of expansion of cultural capacity is introduced and discussed in a broad perspective.
  table of contents: The Nature of Culture: Research Goals and New Directions -- Lessons From Tasmania – Cultural Performance Versus Cultural Capacity -- Culture as a Form of Nature -- The Evolution of Hominin Culture and its Ancient Pre-Hominin Foundations -- Scarce but Significant: The Limestone Component of the Acheulean Site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel -- Technological Transformations Imply Cultural Transformations and Complex Cognition -- Neanderthal Utilitarian Equipment and Group Identity: The Social Context of Bifacial Tool Manufacture and Use -- Tracing Group Identity in Early Upper Paleolithic Stone and Organic Tools – Some Thoughts and Many Questions -- Childhood, Play and the Evolution of Cultural Capacity in Neanderthals and Modern Humans -- Stone Tools: Evidence of Something in Between Culture and Cumulative Culture? -- The Island Test for Cumulative Culture in the Paleolithic -- Mountaineering or Ratcheting? Stone Age Hunting Weapons as Proxy for the Evolution of Human Technological, Behavioral and Cognitive Flexibility.
  note: edited by Miriam N. Haidle, Nicholas J. Conard, Michael Bolus.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Paleontology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
  identifier: 9789401774260
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7426-0
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    record creation date: 160119
    record change date: 20160927112219.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-7426-0