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Evolutionary Archaeology is based on the notion that claims culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties. Therefore, on this basis, EA should follow the same, methods, and approaches that are used to study biological evolution and by doing so it can productively be applied to the study of human culture.
This chapter starts by distinguishing the Darwinian evolutionary approach from other meanings of the word ‘evolution’ in archaeology. It goes on to distinguish three different strands of Darwinian evolution in the social sciences—evolutionary psychology, human behavioural ecology, and dual inheritance theory—the first of which has seen ...
Inspired initially by sociobiology, the 1980s saw the emergence of a new and more formal definition of evolutionary archaeology in primarily anglophone research environments, where artefacts were...
Evolutionary Anthropology is a review journal covering biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, archaeology, morphology, and biology. Abstract Darwinian evolution can be defined minimally as “any net directional change or any cumulative change in the characteristics of … populations over many generations—in other words, descent w...
This article demonstrates the role of evolutionary approaches in archaeology by focusing on four different topics that have long been of interest to archaeologists of virtually all theoretical persuasions. It examines how evolutionary theory can be used by presenting specific concrete examples.
The approach has been variously termed evolutionary, or selectionist, archaeology, and though it is still in a formative stage, there are clear signs of future growth and development.
This graduate textbook provides an introduction and overview of basic and advanced evolutionary research in archaeology. Content will be organized around four areas of critical research including microevolutionary and macroevolutionary process, human ecology studies, and cognitive archaeology.
Evolutionary Archeology: Current Status and Future Prospects MICHAEL J. O’BRIEN AND R. LEE LYMAN Any evolutionary investigation is a two-step process. First, lineages are constructed, here artifact lineages; sec-ond, explanations are made for the lin-eages being the way they are.6,7 The first step is the documentation of descent
Basic Incompatibilities between Evolutionary and Behavioral Archaeology. In recent critiques of evolutionary archaeology, Boone and Smith (1998) have expressed a preference for evolutionary ecology, Spencer (1997) for processual archaeology, and Schiffer (1996) for beha...
Our papers demonstrate how different evolutionary models are aiding archaeologists in teasing apart the dynamics behind assemblages in diverse contexts, ranging from the Classic Maya to enslaved plantation workers.