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Mapping Our Ancestors: Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory »
Authors: Mark Collard (Editor), Michael O'Brien (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor), Carl P. Lipo
ISBN-13: 9780202307503, ISBN-10: 0202307506
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Mark Collard
Book Synopsis
Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual. Mapping Our Ancestors demonstrates how various genealogical or 'phylogenetic' methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| 1 | Cultural phylogenies and explanation : why historical methods matter | 3 |
| 2 | What is a culturally transmitted unit, and how we find one? | 19 |
| 3 | Cultural traits and linguistic trees : phylogenetic signal in East Africa | 33 |
| 4 | Branching versus blending in macroscale cultural evolution : a comparative study | 53 |
| 5 | Seriation and cladistics : the difference between anagenetic and cladogenetic evolution | 65 |
| 6 | The resolution of cultural phylogenies using graphs | 89 |
| 7 | Measuring relatedness | 109 |
| 8 | Phylogenetic techniques and methodological lessons from bioarchaeology | 119 |
| 9 | Phylogeography of archaeological populations : a case study from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) | 131 |
| 10 | Tracking culture-historical lineages : can "descent with modification" be linked to "association by descent"? | 149 |
| 11 | Cultural transmission, phylogenetics, and the archaeological record | 169 |
| 12 | Using cladistics to construct lineages of projectile points from Northeastern Missouri | 185 |
| 13 | Reconstructing the flow of information across time and space : a phylogenetic analysis of ceramic traditions from prehispanic Western and Northern Mexico and the American Southwest | 209 |
| 14 | Archaeological-materials characterization as phylogenetic method : the case of Copador pottery from Southeastern Mesoamerica | 231 |
| 15 | The spread of Bantu languages, farming, and pastoralism in sub-equatorial Africa | 249 |
| 16 | Are accurate dates an intractable problem for historical linguistics? | 269 |
| 17 | Afterword | 299 |
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