Darwinian archaeologies /
This unique work explores the fundamental importance of Darwinian theory to archaeology. Contributors describe the myriad of approaches that archaeologists have taken while investigating prehistory through a Darwinian paradigm. In addition, they provide an important theoretical and methodological fo...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- Darwinian archaeologies: an introductory essay
- The historical development of an evolutionary archaeology: a selectionist approach
- Explaining the change from biface to flake technology: a selectionist application
- Cultural virus theory and the eusocial pottery assemblage
- Organized dissonance: multiple code structures in the replication of human culture
- Kin selection and the origins of hereditary social inequality: a case study from the northern Northwest Coast
- Archaeology, style, and the theory of coevolution
- Style, function, and cultural evolutionary processes
- In search of the watchmaker: attribution of agency in natural and cultural selection
- Weak modularity and the evolution of human social behavior
- The origin of art: natural signs, mental modularity, and visual symbolism
- The state of evolutionary archaeology: evolutionary correctness, or the search for the common ground.