| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 324 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Proximate causation, group selection, and the evolution of hierarchical human societies : system, process, and pattern / Michael Rosenberg -- Landscape learning in relation to evolutionary theory / Marcy Rockman -- "The multiplication of forms" : Bering Strait harpoon heads as a demic and macroevolutionary proxy / Owen K. Mason -- The emergence of new socioeconomic strategies in the middle and late Holocene Pacific Northwest region of North America / Anna Marie Prentiss -- Testing the morphogenesist model of primary state formation : the Zapotec case / Charles S. Spencer -- Evolutionary biology and the emergence of agriculture : the value of co-opted models of evolution in the study of culture change / Melinda A. Zeder -- A macroevolutionary perspective on the archaeological record of North America / James C. Chatters -- Cultural stasis and change in northern North America : a macroevolutionary perspective / Anna Marie Prentiss and Michael Lenert -- Niche construction, macroevolution, and the late Epipaleolithic of the Near East / Ian Kuijt and Anna Marie Prentiss -- Macroevolutionary theory and archaeology : is there a big picture? / Robert L. Bettinger -- Material cultural macroevolution / Niles Eldredge. |
| Summary |
Examines the dynamic interaction between the micro- and macro-scales of cultural evolution. This book develops a theoretical approach to the archaeological record that has been termed evolutionary processual archaeology. It integrates positive elements of both evolutionary and processualist schools of thought. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Human evolution.
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Macroevolution.
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Social evolution.
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History.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Human evolution. (OCoLC)fst00963030
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Macroevolution. (OCoLC)fst01005237
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Social evolution. (OCoLC)fst01122456
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| Added Author |
Prentiss, Anna Marie.
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Kuijt, Ian.
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Chatters, James C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Macroevolution in human prehistory. New York : Springer, ©2009 9781441906830 (DLC) 2009934687 (OCoLC)401159387 |
| ISBN |
9781441906823 (e-isbn) |
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1441906827 (e-isbn) |
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9781441906816 |
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1441906819 |
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