Overview
- Introduces a systemic-approach model for the expansion of cultural capacity with biological, historical, and individual elements
- Provides a synthetic view of the different factors and mechanisms of cultural development and on expansions of cultural capacities in human evolution beyond the capacities observed in animal culture
- Traces the different stages of the development of cultural capacity in humans through the archaeological record
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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The volume provides a synthetic view on a) the different factors and mechanisms of cultural development, and b) expansions of cultural capacities in human evolution beyond the capacities observed in animal culture so far. It is an important topic because only a volume of contributions from different disciplines can yield the necessary breadth to discuss the complex subject. The model introduced and discussed originates in the naturalist context and tries to open the discussion to some culturalist aspects, thus the publication in a series with archaeological and biological emphasis is apt. As a new development the synthetic model of expansion of cultural capacity is introduced and discussed in a broad perspective.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Nature of Culture
Book Subtitle: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany
Editors: Miriam N. Haidle, Nicholas J. Conard, Michael Bolus
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7426-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7424-6Published: 29 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1346-5Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7426-0Published: 19 January 2016
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 151
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology