Macroevolution in Human Prehistory Evolutionary Theory and Processual Archaeology /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Prentiss, Anna. (Editor), Kuijt, Ian. (Editor), Chatters, James C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0682-3
Table of Contents:
  • 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.