Pattern and process in cultural evolution

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Pattern and process in cultural evolution

edited by Stephen Shennan

(Origins of human behavior and culture / edited by Monique Borgerhoff Mulder and Joe Henrich, 2)

University of California Press, c2009

  • cloth : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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 ... [et al.]
  • Population, sociopolitical simplification, and cultural evolution of Levantine neolithic villages
  • Ian Kuijt

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