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Local scale cultural transmission: how are neutral artifact traits manifested at neighborhood boundaries? (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Thulman. Maile Neel.

Archaeologists are paying increasing attention to prehistoric social organization using learning theory, social networks, and the distributions of artifact variation. A starting assumption is that artifact variation will present an isolation-by-distance distribution, a concept developed by Sewall Wright to explain population genetic distributions. Here we extend Wright’s work and adopt his neighborhood model as an analog to explore the small scale interactions between two groups making different...