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1 online resource |
| Series |
Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series |
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Replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Kenichi Aoki and Takeru Akazawa -- Archaeology of Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans. Neanderthals and Modern Humans Across Eurasia / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- Neandertal-Modern Human Contact in Western Eurasia: Issues of Dating, Taxonomy, and Cultural Associations / João Zilhão -- Issues of Chronological and Geographical Distributions of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cultural Variability in the Levant and Implications for the Learning Behavior of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens / Seiji Kadowaki -- The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Siberia: Three Regional Sketches for Replacement / Hirofumi Kato -- Cultural Transmission, Institutional Continuity and the Persistence of the Mousterian / Steven L. Kuhn -- Cultural and Biological Transformations in the Middle Pleistocene Levant: A View from Qesem Cave, Israel / Ran Barkai and Avi Gopher -- Learning Behaviors in Prehistoric and Modern Hunter-Gatherers. The Evolutionary Development of Learning and Teaching Strategies in Human Societies / Hideaki Terashima -- Using Lithic Refitting to Investigate the Skill Learning Process: Lessons from Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at the Shirataki Sites in Hokkaido, Northern Japan / Jun Takakura -- "Gifting" As a Means of Cultural Transmission: The Archaeological Implications of Bow-and-Arrow Technology in Papua New Guinea / Yoshihiro Nishiaki -- "Ekeloko" The Spirit to Create: Innovation and Social Learning Among Aka Adolescents of the Central African Rainforest / Bonnie Hewlett -- Human-Specific Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution. Determinants of Cultural Evolutionary Rates / Kenichi Aoki -- Exploring Cultural Niche Construction from the Paleolithic to Modern Hunter-Gatherers / Nicole Creanza, Laurel Fogarty and Marcus W. Feldman -- The Effects of Cross-Boundary Rituals on Cultural Innovation / Shiro Horiuchi, Sachiko Kubota -- A Simulation Study on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans in Europe: Implications of Climate Change, Cultural Diversification, and the Shape of the Continent / Yutaka Kobayashi -- Cultural Evolution and Learning Strategies in Hominids / Wataru Nakahashi -- A Mathematical Model of Cultural Interactions Between Modern and Archaic Humans / Wataru Nakahashi -- A Perspective on Evolutionary Models of Learning Strategies / Joe Yuichiro Wakano |
| Summary |
This volume presents the first of two proceedings from the International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place in Tokyo in November 2012. Focussing on a highly innovative working hypothesis called the learning hypothesis, which attempts to explain the replacement as a result of differences in the learning abilities of these two hominid populations, the conference served as the latest multidisciplinary discussion forum on this intriguing Palaeoanthropological issue. The present volume reports on outcomes of the conference in three major sections. Part 1 provides an archaeological overview of the processes of replacement/assimilation of Neanderthals by modern humans. Part 2 consists of archaeological and ethnographic case studies exploring evidence of learning behaviours in prehistoric and modern hunter-gatherer societies. Part 3 presents a collection of papers that directly contributes to the definition, validation and testing of the learning hypothesis in terms of population biology and evolutionary theory. A total of 18 papers in this volume make available to readers unique cultural perspectives on mechanisms of the replacement/assimilation of Neanderthals by modern humans and suggested relationships between these mechanisms and different learning strategies |
| Notes |
International conference proceedings |
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Includes index |
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"Proceedings of the international conference on "Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning", organized by Takeru Akazawa, Shunichi Amari, Kenichi Aoki, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Ralph L. Holloway, Shiro Ishii, Tasuku Kimura, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Naomichi Ogihara, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Hideaki Terashima, and Minoru Yoneda, which took place in Tokyo, November 18-24, 2012, volume 1." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Neanderthals -- Congresses
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Human evolution -- Congresses
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Human beings -- Origin -- Congresses
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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Human beings -- Origin
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Human evolution
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Neanderthals
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Akazawa, Takeru, 1938- editor.
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Nishiaki, Yoshihiro, editor
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Aoki, Kenichi, 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
9784431545118 |
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4431545115 |
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4431545107 |
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9784431545101 |
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