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Evolutionary archaeology : theory and application / edited by Michael J. O'Brien ; foreword by Robert C. Dunnell.

Contributor(s): O'Brien, Michael J. (Michael John), 1950-
Language: English Publisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1996.Description: xv, 329p. : tables ; 26cm.ISBN: 0874805147
Contents:
Part I, The foundations of evolutionary archaeology. Natural selection, scale and cultural evolution / R.C. Dunnell; Evolutionary theory and archaeology / R.C. Dunnell; Science, social science and common sense / R.C Dunnell; Aspects of the application of evolutionary theory in archaeology / R.C. Dunnell; Archaeology and evolutionary science / R.C. Dunnell; Part II, methodological issues in evolutionary archaeology. Style and function / R.C. Dunnell; Archaeological potential of anthropological and scientific models / R.C. Dunnell; Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model / Robert D. Leonard, George T. Jones; Undirected variation and the Darwinian explanation of cultural change / D. Rindos; Variation, selection and the archaeological record / M.J. O'Brien, T.D. Holland; Part III, Applying an evolutionary perspective. Symbiosis, instability and the origins and spread of agriculture / D. Rindos; A paradigmatic shift in the search for the origin of agriculture / M.J. O'Brien, H. Clyde Wilson; Ceramics and evolution / Hector Neff; Coevolution of sedentism, pottery technology and horticulture in the central Midwest, 200 BC - AD 600 / D.P. Braun.
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Bibliographical references: p.285-318.

Part I, The foundations of evolutionary archaeology. Natural selection, scale and cultural evolution / R.C. Dunnell; Evolutionary theory and archaeology / R.C. Dunnell; Science, social science and common sense / R.C Dunnell; Aspects of the application of evolutionary theory in archaeology / R.C. Dunnell; Archaeology and evolutionary science / R.C. Dunnell; Part II, methodological issues in evolutionary archaeology. Style and function / R.C. Dunnell; Archaeological potential of anthropological and scientific models / R.C. Dunnell; Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model / Robert D. Leonard, George T. Jones; Undirected variation and the Darwinian explanation of cultural change / D. Rindos; Variation, selection and the archaeological record / M.J. O'Brien, T.D. Holland; Part III, Applying an evolutionary perspective. Symbiosis, instability and the origins and spread of agriculture / D. Rindos; A paradigmatic shift in the search for the origin of agriculture / M.J. O'Brien, H. Clyde Wilson; Ceramics and evolution / Hector Neff; Coevolution of sedentism, pottery technology and horticulture in the central Midwest, 200 BC - AD 600 / D.P. Braun.