Overview
- Explains how Palaeolithic cultures evolved
- Suggests how cultural differences between hominin species contributed to replacement
- Presents novel approaches and findings in a form accessible to advanced graduate students
- Integrates concepts and methods from multiple traditional disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, population biology and experimental psychology
Part of the book series: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series (RNMH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Acheulean Handaxe
- Approximate Bayesian Computation
- Copying Error
- Cultural Evolution
- Cultural Transition Versus Continuity
- Cultural Transmission
- Evolution of Teaching
- Geographical Cultural Variation
- Individual-based Simulation
- Laboratory Experiment
- Moran Model
- Neanderthal to Human Replacement
- North American Palaeolithic
- Residential and Logistical Mobility
- Semantic Axelrod Model
- Social Learning
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alex Mesoudi is Reader in Anthropology at Durham University, UK. He conducts research into human cultural evolution and social learning. He uses a combination of lab experiments and theoretical models to explore the individual-level processes – who copies what, from whom and when – that underlie broad patterns of cultural change. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and one previous book entitled “Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences” (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
Kenichi Aoki is Visiting Professor at Meiji University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo. He currently conducts theoretical research on cultural evolution and on the genetic evolution of learning strategies. He has also authored theoretical articles on group selection, gene-culture coevolution and mate choice. He is coeditor of two volumes focusing on the Neanderthal-modern human problem, “Neanderthals and Modern Humans in Western Asia” (Plenum Press, 1998) and “Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 1 Cultural Perspectives” (Springer 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic
Editors: Alex Mesoudi, Kenichi Aoki
Series Title: Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55363-2
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55362-5Published: 18 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56276-4Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55363-2Published: 30 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2365-063X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 169
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Regional and Cultural Studies, Archaeology, Evolutionary Biology