The challenges of documenting coevolution and niche construction
The example of domestic spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18930906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M C Stiner (0000-0002-3136-9535, School of Anthropology University of Arizona Tucson Arizona USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-70 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1538 • E-ISSN: 1520-6505 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/evan.21878 |
| PMID | 33382521 |
| OpenAlex | W3117984283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 47 |
This essay delves into some of the challenges of studying the coevolution of humans and domestic spaces. These constructed arenas center on food preparation, and as part of the heritable niche they can shift the opportunities for, and constraints on, social interaction and cooperation in evolutionary time. Domestic spaces are widely evidenced in the archeological record, but investigators have made little progress in demonstrating causal links between proposed feedback spirals and constructed spaces of any sort. Bridging fine‐scale and large‐scale processes in coevolutionary systems is a complex problem that must engage higher levels of generative evolutionary theory. Archaeology nonetheless stands to offer a great deal to larger research programs by documenting and analyzing the pathways of change based on site formation processes along with evidence from subsistence refuse and technology. Choice models remain valuable tools for investigating aspects of the fine‐scale feedback processes involved
Biology · Bridging (networking) · Coevolution · Cognitive science · Data science · Generative grammar · Geography · Niche · Niche construction · Scale (ratio) · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · sort · Subsistence agriculture · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Language and cultural evolution · Psychology
The Use of Space in Neanderthal Campsites
Operationalizing niche construction theory with stone tools
The organisation of living spaces in Neanderthal campsites
Culture and Evolvability
Aşıklı Höyük
Modeling Oldowan tool transport from a primate perspective
Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture
Niche construction to social sciences
At Home in the Universe
Niche Construction
A forager–herder trade-off, from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey
Ratcheting up the ratchet
Evolution of lactase persistence
The early settlement of northern Europe
Ancient herders enriched and restructured African grasslands
How culture shaped the human genome
The Origins of Agriculture
Middle Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Levant
Human adaptation to the control of fire
Are we missing the “sweet spot” between optimality theory and niche construction theory in archaeology
The Broad Spectrum Revolution at 40
Was the Emergence of Home Bases and Domestic Fire a Punctuated Event? A Review of the Middle Pleistocene Record in Eurasia
A Comparison of Niche Construction Theory and Diet Breadth Models as Explanatory Frameworks for the Initial Domestication of Plants and Animals
Archaeological formation theory and geoarchaeology
Three-dimensional Distribution of Minerals in the Sediments of Hayonim Cave, Israel
Microarchaeological Approaches to the Identification and Interpretation of Combustion Features in Prehistoric Archaeological Sites
Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic
Herbivorous livestock dung
Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel
Fire at will
Validating niche-construction theory through path analysis
Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
The Structure of Archaeological Theory
The Social Brain
Disturbance, Complexity, Scale
Hearth and Home in the Middle Pleistocene
Recognizing Fire in the Paleolithic Archaeological Record
Genes, Culture, and Agriculture
Domestic Space and Society
| Citations per year | 1.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |