Contents
Preface
C. Michael Barton
Foreward
Michael B. Schiffer
I. Introduction
Evolutionary Theory in Archeological Explanation
C. Michael Barton and G. A. Clark
II. General Theory and Method in Evolutionary Archeology
Introduction
The Concept of Evolution in Early Twentieth Century Americanist Archeology
R. Lee Lymand and Michael J. O'Brien
Why the Muddle in the Middle Matters: The Language of Comparative
and Direct in Hominid Evolution
John Gowlett
Cognitive Archeology, Evolutionary Psychology, and Cultural Transmission,
with Particular Reference to Religious Ideas
Steven Mithen
Methodology of Comparison in Evolutionary Archeology
Hector Neff and Daniel O. Larson
Content as Variability, Result as Selection: Toward a Behavioral
Definition of Technology
Peter Bleed
III. Material Culture, Behavior and Middle Range Theory
Introduction
Technology, Flaked Stone Technology, and Risk
Douglas B. Bamforth and Peter Bleed
Stone Tools, Style, and Social Identity: an Evolutionary Perspective
on the Archeological Record
C. Michael Barton
Seeking Guidelines through and Evolutionary Approach: Style Revisited
among the !Kung San (Ju/'Hoansi) of the 1990s
Polly Wiessner
Evolutionary Implications of Metrical Variation in Great Basin Projectile
Points
Robert Bettinger and Jelmer Eerkens
Transmission Theory in the Study of Stone Tools: A Midwestern Example
Michael Shott
IV. Case Studies and Applications in Paleoanthropology and Archeology
Introduction
Aspects of Early Hominid Sociality: An Evolutionary Perspective
Geoffrey A. Clark
The Mode and Tempo of the Initial Human Colonization of Empty Landmasses:
Sahul and the Americas Compared
Esmée Webb and David Rindos
Rational Behavior, the Adoption of Agriculture, and the Organization
of Subsistence during the Late Archaic Period in the Greater Tuscon Basin
Michael W. Diehl
Conspicuous Consumption as Wasteful Advertising: A Darwinian Perspective
on Spatial Patterns in Classic Maya Terminal Monument Dates
Fraser Neiman
Behavioral Ecology and the Archeological Consequences of Central
Place Foraging among the Meriam
Douglas W. Bird
V. Epilogue
Rediscovering Darwin
G. A. Clark and C. Michael Barton
List of Contributors
Updated 2/8/00