Dynamics of Adaption and Diversity: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Material Culture from Fremont Archaeological Sites.

Summary

This study is uses phylogenetic analysis to examine the dynamics of cultural evolution on material culture. The hypotheses assert that variation in material culture is significantly influenced from nearness and interactions with neighbors, impacts of local environments, and adaptation through distance in time and geographic space. However, cultural transmission processes occur differently for various types of cultural material and/or traditions. By using phylogenetic analysis of several types of material culture such as architecture, pottery, lithics, and basketry, allows for a more fine grained analysis of cultural evolutionary processes. Published material culture data from selected Fremont archaeological sites, dated 400 CE to 1300 CE, will be used for analysis. An evolutionary framework for analyzing variation in material culture permits a highly integrative approach to cultural material studies. This study adds to the growing body of knowledge of evolutionary processes and to the study of the Fremont archaeology.

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• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

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