The Archaeology of Human Ancestry

Power, Sex and Tradition

By: James Steele (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 December 1995 | Edition Number 1

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Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors?
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate their reconstructive methods. Contributors use observations of primates and modern hunter-gatherers to illuminate the fossil and artefactual records. Thematic treatment covers the evolution of group size; group composition and the emotional structure of social bonds; sexual dimorphism and the sexual division of labour; and the origins of human cultural traditions.
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry is an essential introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduates and researchers in archaeology and biological anthropology. It will also be used by workers in psychology, sociology and feminist studies as a resource for understanding human social origins.

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List of illustrations
List of tables
List of contributors
General editor's preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Finite social space and the evolution of human social behaviour	p. 47
African ape social networks: a blueprint for reconstructing early hominid social structure	p. 67
Sexual dimorphism in fossil hominids and its socioecological implications	p. 91
On the evolution of temperament and dominance style in hominid groups	p. 110
The frameworks of early hominid social systems: how many useful parameters of archaeological evidence can we isolate?	p. 135
Archaeological inference and the explanation of hominid evolution	p. 184
Social learning and cultural tradition: interpreting Early Palaeolithic technology	p. 207
On predicting hominid group sizes	p. 230
Making tracks: hominid networks and the evolution of the social landscape	p. 253
Foraging differences between men and women: behavioural ecology of the sexual division of labour	p. 283
Female strategies and collective behaviour: the archaeology of earliest Homo sapiens sapiens	p. 306
Darwinism and collective representations	p. 331
Their commonwealths are not as we supposed: sex, gender and material culture in human evolution	p. 347
Social inequality and the transmission of cultural traditions in forager societies	p. 365
On the evolution of language and kinship	p. 380
A socio-mental bimodality: a pre-hominid inheritance	p. 397
Social interaction and viral phenomena	p. 420
Index	p. 434
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