Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. One. Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution 1
5. Understanding Cultural Transmission
6. Two. Placing Archaeology within a Unified Science of Cultural Evolution 21
7. Three. Human Communication as Niche Construction 33
8. Four. Modes of Transmission and Material Culture Patterns in Craft Skills 45
9. Five. Linking Pattern to Process in Cultural Evolution 61
10. Six. Tangled Trees 85
11. Seven. The Evolution of Material Culture Diversity among Iranian Tribal Populations 99
12. Eight. Evolutionary Explanation and the Record of Interest 113
13. Nine. Identifying Iron Production Lineages 133
14. Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses
15. Ten. Quantitative Analysis of Macroevolutionary Patterning in Technological Evolution 147
16. Eeleven. Innovation Diffusion and Traveling Waves 163
17. Twelve. Explaining Global Patterns in Lower Paleolithic Technology 175
18. Thirteen. Population History and the Evolution of Mesolithic Arrowhead Technology in South Scandinavia 191
19. Fourteen. Experimentation and Innovation in the Archaeological Record 203
20. Social Evolution
21. Fifteen. Mind the Bonding Gap 223
22. Sixteen. Testing Functional Hypotheses about Cross-Cultural Variation 235
23. Seventeen. Parent–Offspring Conflict in Marriage 251
24. Eighteen. Prestige Goods and the Formation of Political Hierarchy 265
25. Nineteen. Population and Warfare 277
26. Twenty. An Ecological Model for the Emergence of Institutionalized Social Hierarchies on California’s Northern Channel Islands 297
27. Twenty-one. Population, Sociopolitical Simplification, and Cultural Evolution of Levantine Neolithic Villages 315
28. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 329
29. INDEX 331