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Cultural evolution, much like general evolution, works from the assumption that cultures are descendent from much earlier ancestors. Human culture manifests itself in forms ranging from the small bands of hunters, through intermediate scale complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, to the high density urban settlements and complex polities that characterize much of today's world.
The chapters in the volume examine the dynamic interaction between the micro- and macro-scales of cultural evolution, developing a theoretical approach to the archaeological record that has been termed evolutionary processual archaeology. The contributions in this volume integrate positive elements of both evolutionary and processualist schools of thought. The approach, as explicated by the contributors in this work, offers novel insights into topics that include the emergence, stasis, collapse and extinction of cultural patterns, and development of social inequalities. Consequently, these contributions form a stepping off point for a significant new range of cultural evolutionary studies.
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“This comprehensive volume on macroevolutionary theory is a recent attempt to revitalize evolutionism in archaeology. ... The study of ... memes facilitates the observation of cultural evolution. ... this book is a significant and impressive contribution to evolutionary studies of cultural change, it propagates rhetoric inherent in this rigid perspective on dynamic variables like human behavior and the environment.” (Heather Kendall, The Midden, Vol. 43 (2), 2011)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherSpringer
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1441906819
- ISBN 13 9781441906816
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages333
- EditorPrentiss Anna, Kuijt Ian, Chatters James C.
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