Macroevolution in Human Prehistory (eBook, PDF)

Evolutionary Theory and Processual Archaeology

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441906823
• Artikelnr.: 37340633

Inhaltsangabe

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I. Issues in Macroevolutionary Theory.- Proximate Causation, Group Selection, and the Evolution of Hierarchical Human Societies: System, Process, and Pattern.- Landscape Learning in Relation to Evolutionary Theory.- #x201C;The Multiplication of Forms:#x201D; Bering Strait Harpoon Heads as a Demic and Macroevolutionary Proxy.- II. Macroevolutionary Approaches to Cultural Change.- The Emergence of New Socioeconomic Strategies in the Middle and Late Holocene Pacific Northwest Region of North America.- Testing the Morphogenesist Model of Primary State Formation: The Zapotec Case.- Evolutionary Biology and the Emergence of Agriculture: The Value of Co-opted Models of Evolution in the Study of Culture Change.- III. Cultural Diversification, Stasis and Extinction as Macroevolutionary Processes.- A Macroevolutionary Perspective on the Archaeological Record of North America.- Cultural Stasis and Change in Northern North America: A Macroevolutionary Perspective.- Niche Construction, Macroevolution, and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East.- IV. Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology.- Macroevolutionary Theory and Archaeology: Is There a Big Picture?.- Material Cultural Macroevolution.

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From the reviews:
"This comprehensive volume on macroevolutionary theory is a recent attempt to revitalize evolutionism in archaeology. ... The study of ... memes facilitates the observation of cultural evolution. ... this book is a significant and impressive contribution to evolutionary studies of cultural change, it propagates rhetoric inherent in this rigid perspective on dynamic variables like human behavior and the environment." (Heather Kendall, The Midden, Vol. 43 (2), 2011)