The archaeology of human ancestry : power, sex, and tradition /

The archaeology of human ancestry : power, sex, and tradition / edited by James Steele and Stephen Shennan. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 446 pages) - Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) . - Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series) .

chapter Introduction -- part Part I Comparative Approaches to Hominid Socioecology -- chapter Editor's Note -- chapter 1 Finite Social Space and the Evolution of Human Social Behaviour / chapter 2 African Ape Social Networks -- chapter 3 Sexual Dimorphism in Fossil Hominids and its Socioecological Implications / chapter 4 On the evolution of temperament and dominance style in hominid groups / part Part II Origins of the Archaeological Record -- chapter Editor's Note -- chapter 5 The Frameworks of Early Hominid Social Systems -- chapter 6 Archaeological Inference and the Explanation of Hominid Evolution / chapter 7 Social Learning and Cultural Tradition -- chapter 8 On Predicting Hominid Group Sizes / chapter 9 Making Tracks -- part Part III The Sexual Division of Labour in Modern Human Foraging Societies -- chapter Editor's Note -- chapter 10 Foraging Differences Between Men and Women -- chapter 11 Female Strategies and Collective Behaviour -- chapter 12 Darwinism and Collective Representations / chapter 13 Their Commonwealths are not as We Supposed -- part Part IV Cognition and Cultural Dynamics in Modern Human Societies -- chapter Editors' Note -- chapter 14 Social Inequality and the Transmission of Cultural Traditions in Forager Societiess -- chapter 15 On the Evolution of Language and Kinship / chapter 16 A Socio-Mental Bimodality -- chapter 17 Social Interaction and Viral Phenomena / Robert Foley -- Henry M.McHenry -- James Steele -- Mark Lake -- James Steele -- Chris Knight -- Robin Dunbar -- Ben Cullen.

9780203974131 9781134814442 9781134814480 9781134814497

10.4324/9780203974131 doi


Paleolithic period.
Prehistoric peoples.
Primates.
Human behavior.
Cognition and culture.

GN771 / .A73 1996

573.3 / A669