Overview
- The first truly comprehensive introduction to evolution studies in archaeology
- Will be immensely valuable for a wide range of archaeological, anthropological, and evolutionary students and scholars seeking summaries and discussion of the now many strands of evolutionary archaeological research
- Chapters authored by a combination of bright early career and imminent senior scholars in the field from around the world
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About this book
Evolutionary Research in Archaeology seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary evolutionary research in archaeology. The book will provide a single source for introduction and overview of basic and advanced evolutionary concepts and research programs in archaeology. Content will be organized around four areas of critical research including microevolutionary and macroevolutionary process, human ecology studies (evolutionary ecology, demography, and niche construction), and evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Authors of individual chapters will address theoretical foundations, history of research, contemporary contributions and debates, and implications for the future for their respective topics. As appropriate, authors present or discuss short empirical case studies to illustrate key arguments.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Evolutionary Cognitive Archaeology
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“This volume covers a lot of ground at considerable depth. … readers of this volume should gain an excellent understanding of the current status of evolutionary research in archaeology in all its contradictions, complexity, and insight. … this compelling volume indicates that this approach proves extremely robust in explaining the development of human behavior.” (Christopher Morgan, American Antiquity, Vol. 85 (4), 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Anna Marie Prentiss is an archaeologist specializing in the prehistory of the Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, and Western Arctic regions of North America and Chilean Patagonia. She has a methodological specialty in lithic technology and theoretical interests in the archaeology of villages and towns, social inequality, hunter-gatherer mobility and technological organization, and the cultural evolutionary process. She is currently editor of the SAA Archaeological Record, the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology
Editors: Anna Marie Prentiss
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11117-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11116-8Published: 14 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11117-5Published: 03 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 443
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology