Evolutionary archeology
Current status and future prospects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18944009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M J O''Brien (0000-0001-6433-8295, American College of Financial Services, corresponding author), R L Lyman (0000-0003-2651-7959, Methodist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-36 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.10007 |
| OpenAlex | W2079495476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 50 |
Darwinian evolution can be defined minimally as “any net directional change or any cumulative change in the characteristics of ... populations over many generations—in other words, descent with modification” 1 (p. 5). In archeology the population comprises artifacts, which are conceived of as phenotypic. 2–4 Extension of the human phenotype to include ceramic vessels, projectile points, and the like is based on the notion that artifacts are material expressions of behavior, which itself is phenotypic. Archeology's unique claim within the natural sciences is its access to past phenotypic characters. Thus, historical questions are the most obvious ones archeologists can ask, although admittedly this is hardly a strong warrant for asking them. But if the issue is evolution, then historical questions must be asked. Posing and answering historical questions is the goal of evolutionary archeology. 5
Archaeology · Biology · Darwinism · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Genealogy · Population · Sociology · Warrant · Demography · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · History · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
Darwinism and Historical Archaeology
The multiple roles of cultural transmission experiments in understanding human cultural evolution
Fishhook variability and cultural transmission in East Polynesia
Technological Change and the Importance of Variability
Clovis Colonization of Eastern North America
To the editor
An evolutionary model of social change in the Middle Ohio Valley
Stone tool analysis and human origins research
Kulturcrisis! Cultural evolution going round in circles
Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences
Why isn't archaeology (more) Darwinian? A historical perspective
Design Space and Cultural Transmission
Stimulated Variation and Cascades
Three Styles of Darwinian Evolution in the Analysis Of Stone Artefacts
On the evolution of limestone-tempered pottery in the American Midwest
What Is Evolution? A Response to Bamforth
North American Clovis Point Form and Performance V
An analysis of the compositional integrity of the Levantine Mousterian facies
Discerning Dispersals along the Pacific and Interior Corridors
The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Central and East Asia
What Can Lithics Tell Us About Dispersals
Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe
Shape matters
Evolutionary archaeology is unlikely to go extinct
Nomothetic science and idiographic history in twentieth-century Americanist anthropology
Evolutionism and North America's archaeological record
On the Use of Parsimony in Archaeological Reasoning
History and Explanation in Archaeology
An Evolutionary Developmental Approach to Cultural Evolution
The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology II
The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology I
Recent Advances in Culturomics
Style, Function, and Cultural Evolutionary Processes
The State of Evolutionary Archaeology
Biology, Behavior, and Borrowing
Individuality and Selection
D arwin's D angerous I dea
Aspects of the application of evolutionary theory in archaeology
Social Theory in Archaeology
The Evolutionary Synthesis
Methodological Issues in Americanist Artifact Classification
Evolutionary Archaeology
Style and function in East Polynesian fish-hooks
Hunter-Gatherers
Science, Style and the Study of Community Structure
Cultural Transmission and Evolution
Cultural transmission and evolution
Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior
Coevolution
Analyzing adaptive strategies
Population Structure, Cultural Transmission, and Frequency Seriation
Large Mammal Relative Abundance in Pithouse and Pueblo Period Archaeofaunas from Southwestern New Mexico
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology
Measuring and Explaining Change in Artifact Variation with Clade-Diversity Diagrams
Hunter-Gatherers
Cladistics Is Useful for Reconstructing Archaeological Phylogenies
Of nets and trees
Resource depression on the Northwest Coast of North America
The Numic Spread
The Role of Adaptation in Archaeological Explanation
Basic Incompatibilities between Evolutionary and Behavioral Archaeology
Point Typologies, Cultural Transmission, and the Spread of Bow-and-Arrow Technology in the Prehistoric Great Basin
Putting Anthropology Back Together Again
Projectile Points as Time Markers in the Great Basin
The epistemological nature of archaeological units
The Goals of Evolutionary Archaeology
Archeological Human Remains
Is It Evolution Yet? A Critique of Evolutionary Archaeology
Human Diversity and the Myth of the Primitive Isolate
Publishing in American Antiquity
Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model for archaeology
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |