Social learning and technological evolution during the Clovis colonization of the New World

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 159-170

  Eren, Metin I ^a,b   Buchanan, Briggs ^c   O'Brien, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Dispersals; Drift; Geometric morphometrics; Hunter gatherers; Peopling of the Americas

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; HUNTER-GATHERER; LEARNING; MORPHOMETRY; NEW WORLD ORDER; PLEISTOCENE; STONE AGE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ARCHEOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; SOCIAL LEARNING; WEAPON;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; SOCIAL LEARNING; WEAPONS;

EID: 84923363624     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.01.002     Document Type: Article

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