The Origins of Human Behaviour (One World Archaeology)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors page......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 16
Introduction: investigating the origins of human behaviour......Page 20
Chimpanzee material culture: what are its limits and why?......Page 32
Culture and symbols......Page 34
Environment and adaptation......Page 35
Diet......Page 36
Home bases......Page 38
Conclusions......Page 40
How useful is the culture concept in early hominid studies?......Page 44
Definitions of culture......Page 45
The inadequacy of culture......Page 46
Those damned chimpanzees......Page 48
The evolution of complex and flexible behaviour......Page 49
Conclusions......Page 54
The significance of modern hunter-gatherers in the study of early hominid behaviour......Page 58
Settlement patterns......Page 60
Subsistence activities......Page 61
Social organization......Page 64
Conclusions......Page 66
Archaeological evidence for modern intelligence......Page 71
Archaeology and intelligence......Page 72
A Piagetian approach to prehistoric intelligence......Page 73
Concrete operations......Page 75
Archaeological evidence for concrete operations......Page 76
Formal operations......Page 77
Archaeological evidence for formal operations......Page 78
Critique of formal operations......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 84
The invention of computationally plausible knowledge systems in the Upper Palaeolithic......Page 86
The basic structure of the invention......Page 87
ATOs, language, and culture......Page 95
ATOs and the ontogeny of shamanism......Page 96
The evidence of Levi-Strauss......Page 97
Conclusions......Page 98
An interactive growth model applied to the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic populations......Page 101
The model......Page 102
Results from the model......Page 105
Conclusions......Page 114
Aboriginal fossil hominids: evolution and migrations......Page 116
Index......Page 134