Transmission of cultural variants in the North American paleolithic

Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution During the Palaeolithic

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 121-143

  O’Brien, Michael J ^a   Buchanan, Briggs ^b   Boulanger, Matthew T ^a   Mesoudi, Alex ^c   Collard, Mark ^d,e   Eren, Metin I ^a   Alexander Bentley, R ^f   Lee Lyman, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clovis; Cultural transmission; Fluted point; Guided variation; Learning; Paleolithic; Social

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943623237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55363-2_9     Document Type: Chapter

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