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Title:

Pattern and process in cultural evolution / edited by Stephen Shennan.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vii, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Human evolution.
Anthropology.
Human ecology.
Human beings--Origin.
Archaeology.

Other Authors:

Shennan, Stephen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Population, sociopolitical simplification, and cultural evolution of Levantine neolithic villages / Ian Kuijt. Social evolution -- 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.

Series:

Origins of human behavior and culture ; 2

ISBN:

0520255992 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520255999 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008034389

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)