Titlebook: Culture History and Convergent Evolution; Can We Detect Popula Huw S. Groucutt Book 2020 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 Cultural trans

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Book 2020 to distinguish convergent evolution from cultural transmission in order to see if we can discover ancient human populations. With a focus on lithic technology, the book analyzes ancient materials and cultures to systematically explore the theoretical and physical aspects of culture, convergence, an

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Into the Tangled Web of Culture-History and Convergent Evolution,otion and recognition of populations in prehistory, and issues of taxonomy (such as ‘technocomplexes’ and ‘industries’) that archaeologists debate as the subject moves (generally) beyond culture-historical interpretations. Another recent volume explored convergent evolution in lithic technologies (O

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The Unity of Acheulean Culture,common ‘ancestor’, or whether it was a technological phase that was repeatedly independently invented. An anecdotal experiment is used to determine the relative ease of inventing biface knapping from scratch, versus transmitting it with one bout of social observation. Handaxe and cleaver elongation

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Culture and Convergence: The Curious Case of the Nubian Complex, years, and it appears to be associated with at least two hominin species. Despite this, proponents of the ‘Nubian Complex’ argue that this technocomplex—often, but not exclusively, defined by the presence of Nubian Levallois technology—offers a strong culture historical signal. This argument claims

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Lithic Variability and Cultures in the East African Middle Stone Age,ased. The Middle Stone Age (MSA) is the lithic techno-complex linked to the emergence of . in Africa. However, there is no consensus in the scientific community about the significance of this lithic culture in terms of connections with particular human social groups nor its evolution. This paper foc

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A Matter of Space and Time: How Frequent Is Convergence in Lithic Technology in the African Archaeoconfound such interpretations, implying connections between unrelated groups. To further the general theoretical debate on this issue, we first delineate the concepts of independent innovation, diffusion and migration and provide archaeological expectations for each of these processes that can creat

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Technology and Function of Middle Stone Age Points. Insights from a Combined Approach at Bushman Ro(MSA). The multifaceted character of points might be the key to their success and for their recurrent adoption by prehistoric populations. Whether MSA points represent a good proxy to identify populations and to discuss their interconnectedness is a question to address at several scales of observati

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