Research Catalog

Title

The archaeology of human ancestry : power, sex, and tradition / edited by James Steele and Stephen Shennan.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Steele, James, 1960-
• Shennan, Stephen
• Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference (1992 : Southampton, England)

Description

xxiii, 446 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)

Uniform Title

Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series)

Subject

• Social Behavior
• Primates
• Hominidae
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Fossil hominids > Congresses
• Prehistoric peoples > Congresses
• Primates > Behavior > Congresses
• Human behavior > Congresses
• Cognition and culture > Congresses
• Sexual division of labor > Congresses
• Social evolution > Congresses
• Behavior

Note

• Based on papers from the 1992 Annual Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference held in Southampton.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Finite social space and evolution of human social behaviour / Robert Foley, Phyllis Lee -- African ape social networks : a blueprint for reconstructing early hominid social structure / Alexandra Maryanski -- Sexual dimorphism in fossil hominids and its socioecological implications / Henry M. McHenry -- On evolution of temperament and dominance style in hominid groups / James Steele -- Frameworks of early hominid social systems : how many useful parameters of archaeological evidence can we isolate? / John Gowlett.
• Archaeological inference and explanation of hominid evolution / Mark Lake -- Social learning and cultural tradition : interpreting Early Paleolithic technology / Steven Mithen -- On predicting hominid group sizes / James Steele -- Making tracks : hominid networks and the evolution of the social landscape / Clive Gamble -- Foraging differences between men and women : behavioural ecology of the sexual division of labour / Kristen Hawkes.
• Female strategies and collective behaviour : the archaeology of earliest Homo sapiens sapiens / Camilla Power, Ian Watts -- Darwinism and collective representations / Chris Knight -- Their commonwealths are not as we supposed : sex, gender and material culture in human evolution / Paul Graves-Brown -- Social inequality and the transmission of cultural traditions in forager societies / Stephen Shennan.
• On evolution of language and kinship / Robin Dunbar -- Socio-mental bimodality : a pre-hominid inheritance / Michael Chance -- Social interaction and viral phenomena / Ben Cullen.

ISBN

041511862X

LCCN

^^^95019856^

OCLC

32625088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library