Mapping our ancestors : phylogenetic approaches in anthropology and prehistory /: phylogenetic approaches in anthropology and prehistory. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Carl P. Lipo [and others] ; foreword by Niles Eldredge.
• Other Names: Lipo, Carl P; Society for American Archaeology., Meeting, (68th) 2003 (Milwaukee, Wis.)
• Contents: Pt. 1. Introduction. Cultural phylogenies and explanation : why historical methods matter / Carl P. Lipo [and others] -- pt. 2. Fundamentals and methods. What is a culturally transmitted unit, and how we find one? / Richard Pocklington ; Cultural traits and linguistic trees : phylogenetic signal in East Africa / Jennifer W. Moylan [and others] ; Branching versus blending in macroscale cultural evolution : a comparative study / Mark Collard, Stephen J. Shennan, and Jamshid J. Tehrani ; Seriation and cladistics : the difference between anagenetic and cladogenetic evolution / R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien ; The resolution of cultural phylogenies using graphs / Carl P. Lipo ; Measuring relatedness / Robert C. Dunnell -- pt. 3. Biology. Phylogenetic techniques and methodological lessons from bioarchaeology / Gordon F.M. Rakita ; Phylogeography of archaeological populations : a case study from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) / John V. Dudgeon -- pt. 4. Culture. Tracking culture-historical lineages : can "descent with modification" be linked to "association by descent"? / Peter Jordan and Thomas Mace ; Cultural transmission, phylogenetics, and the archaeological record / Jelmer W. Eerkens, Robert L. Bettinger, and Richard McElreath ; Using cladistics to construct lineages of projectile points from northeastern Missouri / John Darwent and Michael J. O'Brien ; Reconstructing the flow of information across time and space : a phylogenetic analysis of ceramic traditions from prehispanic western and northern Mexico and the American Southwest / Marcel J. Harmon [and others] ; Archaeological-materials characterization as phylogenetic method : the case of Copador pottery from southeastern Mesoamerica / Hector Neff -- pt. 5. Language. The spread of Bantu languages, farming, and pastoralism in sub-equatorial Africa / Clare J. Holden ; Are accurate dates an intractable problem for historical linguistics? / Quentin D. Atkinson and Russell D. Gray -- pt. 6. Concluding remarks. Afterword / Carl P. Lipo [and others].
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (371 pages)
• Subjects: 599.93/8; Human evolution -- Congresses; Paleoanthropology -- Congresses; Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Congresses; Phylogeny -- Congresses; Cladistic analysis -- Congresses; Anthropology, Prehistoric; Cladistic analysis; Human evolution; Paleoanthropology; Phylogeny; Phylogeny; Anthropology -- methods; Biological Evolution; Conference papers and proceedings; Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351507066; 1351507060
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