Stephen Shennan

Mapping Our Ancestors (eBook, PDF)

Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 371
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351507073
• Artikelnr.: 48866800

Autorenporträt

Stephen Shennan

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
1: Cultural Phylogenies and Explanation: Why Historical Methods Matter
2: Fundamentals and Methods
2: What is a Culturally Transmitted Unit, and How Do We Find One?
3: Cultural Traits and Linguistic Trees: Phylogenetic Signal in East Africa
4: Branching versus Blending in Macroscale Cultural Evolution: A Comparative Study
5: Sedation and Cladistics: The Difference between Anagenetic and Cladogenetic Evolution
6: The Resolution of Cultural Phylogenies Using Graphs
7: Measuring Relatedness
3: Biology
8: Phylogenetic Techniques and Methodological Lessons from Bioarchaeology
9: Phylogeography of Archaeological Populations: A Case Study from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
4: Culture
10: Tracking Culture-Historical Lineages: Can "Descent with Modification" be Linked to "Association by Descent"?
169: Cultural Transmission, Phylogenetics, and the Archaeological Record
12: Using Cladistics to Construct Lineages of Projectile Points from Northeastern Missouri
13: Reconstructing the Flow of Information across Time and Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ceramic Traditions from Prehispanic Western and Northern Mexico and the American Southwest
14: Archaeological-Materials Characterization as Phylogenetic Method: The Case of Copador Pottery from Southeastern Mesoamerica
5: Language
15: The Spread of Bantu Languages, Farming, and Pastoralism in Sub-Equatorial Africa
16: Are Accurate Dates an Intractable Problem for Historical Linguistics?
6: Concluding Remarks
17: Afterword