A5049828992- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Language and cultural evolution
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
University College London
2016-2025
Museum of London Archaeology
2011-2022
University of Arizona
2020
Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
2020
Institute of Archaeology
2000-2018
Durham University
2016
Cincinnati Museum Center
2016
Western University
2016
Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology
2015
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
2015
The origins of modern human behavior are marked by increased symbolic and technological complexity in the archaeological record. In western Eurasia this transition, Upper Paleolithic, occurred about 45,000 years ago, but many its features appear transiently southern Africa earlier. We show that demography is a major determinant maintenance cultural variation regional subpopulation density and/or migratory activity results spatial structuring skill accumulation. Genetic estimates population...
Following its initial arrival in SE Europe 8,500 years ago agriculture spread throughout the continent, changing food production and consumption patterns increasing population densities. Here we show that, contrast to steady growth usually assumed, introduction of into was followed by a boom-and-bust pattern density regional populations. We demonstrate that summed calibrated radiocarbon date distributions simulation can be used test significance these demographic booms busts context...
In recent years there has been a major growth of interest in exploring the analogies between genetic transmission information from one generation to next and processes cultural transmission, an attempt obtain greater understanding how culture change occurs. This article uses computer simulation explore implications specific model relationship demography innovation within evolutionary framework. The consequences appear far more successful larger populations than smaller ones. conclusion, it...
Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes. Conspicuous uncertainties remain about relative roles of migration, cultural diffusion, admixture with local foragers Neolithization Europe. Here we present paleogenomic data for five Neolithic individuals from northern Greece northwestern Turkey spanning time region earliest farming into We use a novel approach...
We show that the frequency distributions of cultural variants, in three different real-world examples--first names, archaeological pottery and applications for technology patents--follow power laws can be explained by a simple model random drift. conclude economic choices often reflect decision process is value-neutral; this result has far-reaching testable implications social-science research.
In a previous study we presented new method that used summed probability distributions (SPD) of radiocarbon dates as proxy for population levels, and Monte-Carlo simulation to test the significance observed fluctuations in context uncertainty calibration curve archaeological sampling. The allowed us identify periods significant short-term change, caveated with fact around 5% these were false positives. this present an improvement by applying criterion remove positives from both simulated...
Near Eastern genomes from Iran The genetic composition of populations in Europe changed during the Neolithic transition hunting and gathering to farming. To better understand origin modern populations, Broushaki et al. sequenced ancient DNA four individuals Zagros region present-day Iran, representing early Fertile Crescent. These unexpectedly were not ancestral European farmers, their structures did contribute significantly those Europeans. data indicate that a parallel probably resulted...
Significance The relationship between human population, food production, and climate change is a pressing concern in need of high-resolution, long-term perspectives. Archaeological radiocarbon dates have increasingly been used to reconstruct past population dynamics, Britain Ireland provide both sampling densities species-level sample identifications that are globally unrivalled. We use this evidence demonstrate multiple instances downturn over the Holocene coincide with periodic episodes...
Preface * 1. Introduction: Why Darwinian archaeology? 2. Behavioural ecology: the evolutionary study of behaviour 3. Culture as an system 4. The archaeology cultural traditions 5. Human life histories and their population consequences 6. getting a living 7. Male-female relations in perspective: role sexual selection 8. history social contracts evolution property 9. Competition, co-operation warfare: group 10. History, adaptation self-organization
The emergence of a hereditary elite class in Bronze Age Europe is now widely interpreted terms the redistributive activities managerial ruling class. This fuctionalist account origins goes against uniformitarian understanding what classes do complex societies. It also poorly suited to concrete evidence for cultures Europe. rise hereditary, superordinate social strata prehistoric better understood as consequence development capital-intensive subsistence techniques. Plow agriculture,...
Understanding the introduction of farming and adoption Neolithic culture continues to be a major research objective in Europe. The authors make use new database radiocarbon dates from Mesolithic sites map transition. While overall effect is still diffusion into Europe south-east, detailed spatial analysis reveals fascinating local variations: some places change was rapid, one population replaced another, others it gradual owed incoming ideas rather than people.
l. The evolution of chiefdoms Timothy Earle 2. Chiefdoms, states, and systems social Kristian Kristiansen 3. pattern change in British prehistory Richard Bradley 4. Property rights the 5. Lords waste: predation, pastoral production, process stratification among Eastern Tuaregs Candelario Saenz 6. Chiefship competitive involution: Marquesas Islands eastern Polynesia Patrick Kirch 7. Trajectories towards complexity later Mediterranean Antonio Gilman 8. Chiefdoms to city-states: Greek...
A major topic of debate in Old World prehistory is the relative importance population movement versus cultural diffusion explaining spread agriculture into and across Europe following its inception southwestern Asia. An important set data that has surprisingly been largely absent from this preserved crops associated weeds earliest farmers. analysis archaeobotanical 40 aceramic Neolithic sites Asia southeastern shows there are vegetational signatures characterize different geographical...
Bronze is the defining metal of European Age and has been at center archaeological science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical studies have largely focused on determining geological origin constituent metals, copper tin, their movement from producer to consumer sites. More recently, effects recycling, both temporal spatial, composition circulating stock received much attention. Also, discussions value perception bronze, as individual objects hoarded material,...