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1	Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution more books like this by Professor Stephen Shennan add to wishlist What is the history of human populations? How are cultural traditions maintained and changed over time? Why did people destroy their environments in the past and were they ever conservationists? What led to the emergence of marked social inequalities? These are some of the questions that this text addresses and answers, in an application of neo ... see all copies from £15.22! new only from £15.22! \| first editions
2	Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution more books like this by Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor) add to wishlist This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural ... see all copies from £29.91! new only from £40.85!
3	The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex and Tradition more books like this by James Steele (Editor), Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor) add to wishlist Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors? The text provides an answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate ... see all copies from £66.05! new only from £95.72!
4	Quantifying Archaeology more books like this by Professor Stephen Shennan add to wishlist The second edition of this popular texbook introduces archaeology students to the use of statistics in their subject. Based on the author's long-running undergraduate course, it explains the relevant areas of statistics in terms that archaeology students can easily assimilate. This new edition includes a wider range of topics presented in greater ... see all copies from £18.63! new only from £38.30! \| first editions
5	Ranking, Resource and Exchange: Aspect of the Archaeology of Early European Society more books like this by Colin Renfrew (Editor), Steven Shennan (Editor), Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor) add to wishlist Ranked societies are characterized by disparities in personal status that are often accompanied by the concentration of power and authority in the hands of a few dominant individuals. They stand between the sophistication of developed, states and the relative simplicity of most hunter-gatherer groups and early agriculturalists. In some places and ... see all copies from £17.74! new only from £17.74!
6	Quantifying Archaeology: Second Edition more books like this by Professor Stephen Shennan add to wishlist see all copies from £11.84! new only from £27.42!
7	Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity more books like this by Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor) add to wishlist This volume is part of a series resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, held in Southampton in September 1986, which addressed world archaeology and examined not only how people lived in the past, but also what changes took place in society and culture which still exist today. This book explores some of the kinds of archaeological data ... see all copies from £35.26! new only from £35.26!
8	A Future for Archaeology more books like this by Robert Layton (Editor), Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor), Peter Stone (Editor) add to wishlist Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater engagement with the non-academic world, often in an extremely practical and direct way, ... see all copies from £27.21! new only from £62.37!
9	Quantifying Archaelology more books like this by Stephen Shennan add to wishlist see all copies from £16.80!
10	A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present more books like this by Robert Layton (Editor), Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor), Peter Stone (Editor) add to wishlist Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater engagement with the non-academic world, often in an extremely practical and direct way, ... see all copies from £27.86! new only from £27.86!
11	Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew more books like this by John Cherry (Editor), Chris Scarre (Editor), Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor) add to wishlist Over the past 30 years, social archaeology has become one of the central fields of archaeological research, placing human societies at the heart of our understanding of the human past. Colin Renfrew has been a key champion of social archaeology, and the present volume brings together a series of papers on the occasion of his retirement. They have ... see all copies from £55.86! new only from £55.86!
12	Amber in Prehistoric Britain more books like this by Curt Beck, Professor Stephen Shennan add to wishlist Infrared absorption spectroscopy is able to pinpoint the source of British Prehistoric amber, here shown by analysis of all surviving finds to be predominantly Baltic. This leads on to a discussion of British amber in a European context, and of its particular significance as a social indicator, and as an item of trade or exchange. Complete with ... see all copies from £95.75!
13	The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach more books like this by Ruth Mace (Editor), Clare J Holden (Editor), Professor Stephen Shennan (Editor) add to wishlist Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of languages existed in the past but became extinct. ... see all copies from £24.49! new only from £24.49!
14 view cover	Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology more books like this by Dr. Michael J O'Brien (Editor), Stephen J Shennan (Editor) add to wishlist In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered the role of innovation in particular, and have moved toward characterizing innovation in cultural systems not only as a product but also as an evolutionary process. This ... see all copies from £23.74! new only from £23.74!
15	Planning for the past : volume 3; decison-making and field methods in archaeological evaluation. by Timothy Champion, Stephen Shennan, Paul Cuming, English Heritage add to wishlist see all copies from £7.98!
16	Experiments in the collection and analysis of archaeological survey data : the east Hampshire survey more books like this by Stephen Shennan, Julie Gardiner, Martin Oake, University of Sheffield. Department of Prehistory and Archaeology add to wishlist see all copies from £11.33! new only from £11.33!
17	Arqueologia Cuantitativa more books like this by Professor Stephen Shennan add to wishlist De las colecciones que nacieron de Critica/Historia, esta incorporo todos los textos correspondientes a Arqueologia e Historia antigua. Nacio con el libro de Lewis Binford, En busca del pasado, que iniciaba en Espana la divulgacion de la llamada Nueva Arqueologia y que supuso un importante instrumento de renovacion metodologica. La coleccion ha ... see all copies from £30.14!

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