The Nature of Culture Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Haidle, Miriam N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Conard, Nicholas J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bolus, Michael (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Earth Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

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 a...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.