Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction to “Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution During the Palaeolithic”....Pages 1-8
Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population....Pages 9-21
The Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior....Pages 23-33
A Population-Genetics Based Model for Explaining Apparent Cultural Continuity from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia....Pages 35-44
Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior....Pages 45-65
Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model....Pages 67-83
Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data....Pages 85-101
Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured?....Pages 103-120
Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic....Pages 121-143
Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What Are the Requirements of the Ratchet?....Pages 145-154
Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’....Pages 155-166
Back Matter....Pages 167-169