Cultural Evolution (Other Keyword)

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Reading the chisel’s chippings: Changing religious attitudes about death and eighteenth-century New England gravestones (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Scholnick. Ryan Nichols.

The eighteenth century was a dynamic period of religious change, particularly in New England, as the Calvinistic influence of the Puritan settlers waned and new denominations emerged. This was also a time of rapidly changing funerary ritual, when the inscriptions on grave markers shifted from emphases on marking the remains of the decedent to commemorating them, and gravestone motifs became more diverse. This study examines the ways that religious attitudes towards death change, using a database...

Rise, Transformation and Fall of the Apalachee Chiefdom: Evidence of Political Centralization and Decentralization in a Mississippian Society (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John F. Scarry.

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Significance of the 3000 B.P. Hoke River Waterlogged Fishing Camp in Our Overall Understanding of Southern Northwest Coast Cultural Evolution (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale R. Croes.

State Foundations: a Controlled Comparison. In: Origins of the State: the Anthropology of Political Evolution (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Cohen.

State Origins: a Reappraisal. In: the Early States (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Cohen.

A Study of the Temporal Sequence and Global Spatial Distribution of Cranial Modification (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gizeh Rangel De Lázaro. Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra. Stacey Ward. Caitlin Raymond. Laura Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intentional cranial modification (ICM) represents one of the most outstanding biocultural practices of the past in the Americas, resulting from a millennial evolution within distinct cultural territories. When the Europeans first arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, ICM was a widespread tradition among most of the native populations of the continent. Here we...

Subsistence Costs and Information: a Preliminary Model of Fort Walton Development (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John F. Scarry.

Subsistence Costs and Information: a Preliminary Model of Fort Walton Development (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John F. Scarry.

A test of competing hypotheses concerning the impact of demography on cultural evolution (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brea McCauley. Mark Collard.

Recently there has been a surge of interest in the possibility that demography affects cultural evolution. Some authors have proposed that population size affects the appearance and retention of innovations and therefore influences the complexity of a population’s cultural repertoire. Others have averred that it is not population size that drives cultural complexity but rather population pressure (the ratio of population density to the density of available resources). Still others have argued...

Two Millennia of Cultural Evolution of Bering Sea Hunters (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. A. Arutiunov. D. A. Sergeev.

Warfare in Late Prehistoric West-Central Illinois (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George R. Milner. Eve Anderson. Virginia G. Smith.

Wayne Mortuary Complex and Its Place in Great Lakes Prehistory (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Halsey.

Where is the evidence for selection? (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only P. Jeffrey Brantingham. Charles Perreault.

Few dispute that the Tibetan Plateau represents one of the harshest environments on the planet. It is reasonable to expect that human colonization of the Plateau entailed exposure to strong selective pressures. Successful colonization of the Plateau therefore implies the development of adaptations in response to these selective pressures. Genetic, physiological and morphological data from Plateau populations are consistent with a general model for biological adaptation under strong selective...