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Darwinian archaeologies

Title
Darwinian archaeologies / edited by Herbert Donald Graham Maschner ; foreword by Stephen Shennan.
Publication
New York : Plenum Press, ©1996.

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Additional Authors
Maschner, Herbert D. G.
Description
xxi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
  • Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
  • The language of science
Uniform Title
  • Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
  • Language of science
Subject
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 > Influence
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
  • Social archaeology
  • Social Darwinism
  • Social evolution
  • Archaeology
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Archaeology
  • Biological Evolution
  • Cultural Evolution
  • archaeology
  • evolution
  • 15.31 methods and techniques of archaeology
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Social archaeology
  • Social Darwinism
  • Social evolution
  • Archäologie
  • Evolutionstheorie
  • Sozialdarwinismus
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Archeologie
  • Darwinisme
  • Evolucao (teoria)
  • Arqueologia social
  • Evolució (Biologia)
  • Archéologie sociale
  • Darwinisme social
  • Évolution sociale
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Darwinian archaeologies: an introductory essay -- The historical development of an evolutionary archaeology: a selectionist approach -- Explaining the change from biface to flake technology: a selectionist application --Cultural virus theory and the eusocial pottery assemblage -- Organized dissonance: multiple code structures in the replication of human culture -- Kin selection and the origins of hereditary social inequality: a case study from the northern Northwest Coast -- Archaeology, style, and the theory of coevolution -- Style, function, and cultural evolutionary processes -- In search of the watchmaker: attribution of agency in natural and cultural selection -- Weak modularity and the evolution of human social behavior -- The origin of art: natural signs, mental modularity, and visual symbolism -- The state of evolutionary archaeology: evolutionary correctness, or the search for the common ground.
ISBN
  • 0306453282
  • 9780306453281
LCCN
96017069
OCLC
  • ocm34546277
  • 34546277
  • SCSB-9605353
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library