Understanding hunter-gatherer cultural evolution needs network thinking

Hunter-gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and archaeology open new research horizons to understa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) 2022-08, Vol.37 (8), p.632-636
Hauptverfasser:	Fernández-López de Pablo, Javier, Romano, Valéria, Derex, Maxime, Gjesfjeld, Erik, Gravel-Miguel, Claudine, Hamilton, Marcus J, Migliano, Andrea Bamberg, Riede, Felix, Lozano, Sergi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Archaeology and Prehistory Humanities and Social Sciences Social Anthropology and ethnology
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Zusammenfassung:	Hunter-gatherers past and present live in complex societies, and the structure of these can be assessed using social networks. We outline how the integration of new evidence from cultural evolution experiments, computer simulations, ethnography, and archaeology open new research horizons to understand the role of social networks in cultural evolution.
ISSN:	0169-5347 1872-8383
DOI:	10.1016/j.tree.2022.04.007