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Book Review of 'Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies' Edited by Ethan E. Cochrane and Andrew Gardner
Liane Gabora, Carl P. Lipo
Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies, edited by Ethan E. Cochrane and Andrew Gardner, grew out of a seminar at the Institute for Archaeology at University College London in…
Combinatorial Structure of the Deterministic Seriation Method with Multiple Subset Solutions
Mark E. Madsen, Carl P. Lipo
Seriation methods order a set of descriptions given some criterion (e.g., unimodality or minimum distance between similarity scores). Seriation is thus inherently a problem of find…
Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model
Mark E. Madsen, Carl P. Lipo
Cultural transmission models are coming to the fore in explaining increases in the Paleolithic toolkit richness and diversity. During the later Paleolithic, technologies increase n…
A Non-Phylogenetic Conceptual Network Architecture for Organizing Classes of Material Artifacts into Cultural Lineages
Liane Gabora, Stefan Leijnen, Tomas Veloz +1
The application of phylogenetic techniques to the documentation of cultural history can present a distorted picture due to horizontal transmission and blending. Moreover, the units…
The Evolutionary Biology of Ourselves: Unit Requirements and Organizational Change in United States History
Carl Lipo, Mark Madsen
Researchers have proposed that the distinction between so-called "simple" and "complex" societies can be expressed by an increase in the number of levels at which functional organi…
Reproductive Tradeoffs In Uncertain Environments: Explaining The Evolution Of Cultural Elaboration
Mark Madsen, Carl Lipo, Michael Cannon
Dunnell's (1989) explanation for cultural elaboration proposed that elaboration could be a consequence of selection within uncertain environments. He developed the theory to the ex…