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World Archaeol 26 (2)
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World Archaeol 26 (2)
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World Archaeology
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26 (2)
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Journal
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Year of Publication:
1995
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Date Of Issue From: 1994 Date Of Issue To: 01
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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20 Jan 2002
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Abstract
Communication networks and dispersal patterns in human evolution: a simple simulation model
J Steele
126 - 143
It is suggested that the sexual division of labour may in fact be consequent to the pattern of sex-biased dispersal and philopatry, and that dispersal patterns underlie the patterning of artefact traditions in the Lower Palaeolithic record. A simple simulation model is presented which has been used to explore the consequences of dispersal patterns for spatial aspects of cultural traditions. The results of the experiments are summarised and discussed.
Flakes and ladders: what the archaeological record cannot tell us about the origins of language
Paul Graves
158 - 171
Disputes claims that the origin of language can be detected in the archaeological record. The equation of `symbolic' artefacts with language fails to treat material culture as part of a dynamic of action.
Art as information: explaining Upper Palaeolithic art in western Europe
C Michael Barton
A G Clark
E Allison Cohen
185 - 207
Proceeding from the information exchange theory of style, it is argued that the changing temporal and spatial distributions of mobile and parietal art in Palaeolithic Europe are related aspects of a single evolutionary process: alternating selective pressures differentially favouring the expression of assertive and emblematic style over the 30--7 kyr BP interval. These pressures result from demographic and social change across the European subcontinent in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. A model of cultural selection for symbolic behaviour manifest as art that proceeds from and parallels neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory is developed.
Language as symbol in churchyard monuments: the use of Welsh in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Pembrokeshire
Harold C Mytum
252 - 267
In Pembrokeshire a linguistic divide known as the Landsker is expressed through graveyard memorials by the language chosen for the inscription. Variability in language choice is demonstrated not only through time and space, but also by status and religious affiliation. Language differences reflect wider cultural ties, and these are also expressed through memorials, with the pedimented headstone popular in north Pembrokeshire being used as an example here.