Macroevolution in Human Prehistory Evolutionary Theory and Processual Archaeology /
Cultural evolution, much like general evolution, works from the assumption that cultures are descendent from much earlier ancestors. Human culture manifests itself in forms ranging from the small bands of hunters, through intermediate scale complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, to the high density u...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Issues in Macroevolutionary Theory. Proximate Causation, Group Selection, and the Evolution of Hierarchical Human Societies. Landscape Learning in Relation to Evolutionary Theory. "The Multiplication of Forms."- Part 2: Macroevolutionary Approaches to Cultural Change. The Emergence of New Socio-Economic Strategies in the Middle and Late Holocene Pacific Northwest Region of North America. Testing the Morphogenesist Model of Primary State Formation. The Neolithic Macro-(R)evolution
- Part 3: Cultural Diversification, Stasis, and Extinction as Macroevolutionary Processes. A Macroevolutionary Perspective on the Archaeological Record of North America. Cultural Stasis in Northern North America. Niche Construction, Macroevolution and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East
- Part 4: Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology - Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology. Material Cultural Macroevolution.