Technology is not only the material means of making artifacts, but a dynamic cultural
phenomenon embedded in social action, worldviews, and social reproduction. This paper …

Humans behave altruistically in natural settings and experiments. A possible explanation—
that groups with more altruists survive when groups compete—has long been judged …

Anthropological archaeology and other disciplines concerned with the formation of early
complex societies are undergoing a theoretical shift stemming from the realization that the …

In 1884 a community of Brazilians was" discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of
Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region, a group who even …

Increasingly, archaeologists are recognizing cultural anthropological work in New Guinea as
an important source of ethnographic analogy for understanding the initial stages of cultural …

This paper presents an archaeological approach to the study of culture change and
persistence in multi-ethnic communities through the study of daily practices and based on a …

Investigations of the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation and collective action provide
productive venues for theorizing social complexity, yet this multidisciplinary scholarship …

An up-to-date and critical analysis of how archaeologists study past societies, Archaeologies
of Complexity addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social …

A new paradigm is emerging in archaeology herein dubbed 'historical processualism'. A
review of three contemporary approaches to the study of the past–neo-Darwinism, cognitive …

Archaeologists' reconstructions of paths to complexity have all too often excluded complex
hunter-gatherers. However, recent theoretical contributions and long-term field research …