Mapping our ancestors : phylogenetic approaches in anthropology and prehistory / editors, Carl P. Lipo ... [and others] ; foreword by Niles Eldredge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipo, Carl P.

Society for American Archaeology. Meeting 2003 : Milwaukee, Wis.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human evolution--Congresses.

Human evolution.

Paleoanthropology--Congresses.

Paleoanthropology.

Anthropology, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Anthropology, Prehistoric.

Phylogeny--Congresses.

Phylogeny.

Cladistic analysis--Congresses.

Cladistic analysis.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xviii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Aldine Transaction, [2006]

Summary:

Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual. Mapping Our Ancestors demonstrates how various genealogical or "phylogenetic" methods can be used both to answer questions about human history and to build evolutionary explanations for the shape of history. Anthropologists are increasingly turning to quantitative phylogenetic methods. These methods depend on the transmission of information regardless of mode and as such are applicable to many anthropological questions. In this way, phylogenetic approaches have the potential for building bridges among the various subdisciplines of anthropology; an exciting prospect indeed.

Contents:

1 Cultural Phylogenies and Explanation: Why Historical Methods Matter / Carl P. Lipo, Michael J. O'Brien, Mark Collard, Stephen J. Shennan 3

Part 2 Fundamentals and Methods

2 What is a Culturally Transmitted Unit, and How We Find One? / Richard Pocklington 19

3 Cultural Traits and Linguistic Trees: Phylogenetic Signal in East Africa / Jennifer W. Moylan, Corine M. Graham, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Charles L. Nunn, N. Thomas Hakansson 33

4 Branching versus Blending in Macroscale Cultural Evolution: A Comparative Study / Mark Collard, Stephen J. Shennan, Jamshid J. Tehrani 53

5 Seriation and Cladistics: The Difference between Anagenetic and Cladogenetic Evolution / R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien 65

6 The Resolution of Cultural Phylogenies Using Graphs / Carl P. Lipo 89

7 Measuring Relatedness / Robert C. Dunnell 109

Part 3 Biology

8 Phylogenetic Techniques and Methodological Lessons from Bioarchaeology / Gordon F. M. Rakita 119

9 Phylogeography of Archaeological Populations: A Case Study from Rapa Nui (Easter Island) / John V. Dudgeon 131

Part 4 Culture

10 Tracking Culture-Historical Lineages: Can "Descent with Modification" Be Linked to "Association by Descent"? / Peter Jordan, Thomas Mace 149

11 Cultural Transmission, Phylogenetics, and the rchaeological Record / Jelmer W. Eerkens, Robert L. Bettinger, Richard McElreath 169

12 Using Cladistics to Construct Lineages of Projectile Points from Northeastern Missouri / John Darwent, Michael J. O'Brien 185

13 Reconstructing the Flow of Information across Time and Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Ceramic Traditions from Prehispanic Western and Northern Mexico and the American Southwest / Marcel J. Harmon, Todd L. VanPool, Robert D. Leonard, Christine S. VanPool, Laura A. Salter 209

14 Archaeological-Materials Characterization as Phylogenetic Method: The Case of Copador Pottery from Southeastern Mesoamerica / Hector Neff 231

Part 5 Language

15 The Spread of Bantu Languages, Farming, and Pastoralism in Sub-Equatorial Africa / Clare J. Holden 249

16 Are Accurate Dates an Intractable Problem for Historical Linguistics? / Quentin D. Atkinson, Russell D. Gray 269.

Notes:

Based on two symposia held during the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, Wis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-338) and index.

ISBN:

0202307506

0202307514

OCLC:

60796274