A multilevel analytical framework for studying cultural evolution in prehistoric hunter–gatherer societies
| Autor: | Romano, Valéria, Lozano, Sergi, Fernández‐López de Pablo, Javier |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología y Patrimonio Histórico, Prehistoria y Protohistoria |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
social network analysis Archaeological record Social Interaction Network science Arqueologia 01 natural sciences Prehistòria Social network analysis prehistoric hunter–gatherers cultural complexity Economic geography Sociology Sociocultural evolution Cultural transmission in animals computational archaeology History Ancient Hunter-gatherer 0303 health sciences Social evolution Human social behaviour cultural evolutionary theory Computational archaeology Cultural evolutionary theory Archaeology archaeological networks Original Article cultural transmission General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Time and economic reactions Prehistory human social behaviour 010603 evolutionary biology Cultural complexity General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences Evolució cultural Prehistoric hunter–gatherers Cultural Evolution Humans Demography 030304 developmental biology Archaeological networks Evolutionary archaeology Prehistoria Original Articles 15. Life on land Social relation evolutionary archaeology Temps i comportament econòmic Cultural transmission |
| Zdroj: | RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Alicante (UA) Dipòsit Digital de la UB Universidad de Barcelona Biological Reviews Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society |
| Popis: | Over the past decade, a major debate has taken place on the underpinnings of cultural changes in human societies. A growing array of evidence in behavioural and evolutionary biology has revealed that social connectivity among populations and within them affects, and is affected by, culture. Yet the interplay between prehistoric hunter–gatherer social structure and cultural transmission has typically been overlooked. Interestingly, the archaeological record contains large data sets, allowing us to track cultural changes over thousands of years: they thus offer a unique opportunity to shed light on long‐term cultural transmission processes. In this review, we demonstrate how well‐developed methods for social structure analysis can increase our understanding of the selective pressures underlying cumulative culture. We propose a multilevel analytical framework that considers finer aspects of the complex social structure in which regional groups of prehistoric hunter–gatherers were embedded. We put forward predictions of cultural transmission based on local‐ and global‐level network metrics of small‐scale societies and their potential effects on cumulative culture. By bridging the gaps between network science, palaeodemography and cultural evolution, we draw attention to the use of the archaeological record to depict patterns of social interactions and transmission variability. We argue that this new framework will contribute to improving our understanding of social interaction patterns, as well as the contexts in which cultural changes occur. Ultimately, this may provide insights into the evolution of human behaviour. This work was funded by the European Research Council (ref. ERC-2015 Co-Grant 683018) awarded to J.F.-L.d.P. – PALEODEM project: “Late Glacial and Postglacial Population History and Cultural Transmission in Iberia (C.15,000-8,000cal BP)”. The authors were also supported by the Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR), Grant 2017SGR836. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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