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Technology as Human Social Tradition [Elektronische Ressource] : Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers

Jordan, Peter,i1969-

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014

425 p.

Origins of Human Behavior and Culture ; v.7

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978-0-520-95833-3

Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology-prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradit...