Culture History and Convergent Evolution : Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory? /: Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory?. ([2020])
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- Title:
- Culture History and Convergent Evolution : Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory? /: Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory?. ([2020])
- Main Title:
- Culture History and Convergent Evolution : Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory?
- Further Information:
- Note: Huw S. Groucutt, editor.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1-Introduction: Into the tangled web of culture-history and convergent evolution.- Chapter 2-The unity of Acheulean culture. Chapter 3-Problems and pitfalls in understanding the Clactonian.- Chapter 4-Culture and convergence: The curious case of the Nubian Complex.- Chapter 5-Lithic variability and cultures in the East African Middle Stone Age.- Chapter 6-A matter of space and time: How frequent is convergence in lithic technology in the African archaeological record over the last 300 kyr?.- Chapter 7-Technology and function of Middle Stone Age points. Insights from a combined approach at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa.- Chapter 8-Raw material and regionalization in Stone Age East Africa.- Chapter 9-The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition: A long-term biocultural effect of anatomically modern human dispersal.- Chapter 10-Threading the weft, testing the warp: Population concepts and the European Upper Palaeolithic chronocultural framework.- Chapter 11-Communities of interaction: Tradition and learning in stone tool production through the lens of the Epipaleolithic of Kharaneh IV, Jordan.- Chapter 12-Toward a theory of the point.- Chapter 13-Learning strategies and population dynamics during the Pleistocene colonization of North America.- Chapter 14-Culture, environmental adaptation or specific problem solving? On convergence and innovation dynamics related to techniques used for stone heat treatment.- Chapter 15-Style, function and cultural transmission.
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 599.938
Human evolution
Social evolution
Culture -- Origin
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030461263
3030461262 - Related ISBNs:
- 3030461254
9783030461256 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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