Autor segons l'article: Romano, Valeria; Lozano, Sergi; de Pablo, Javier Fernandez-Lopez;
Departament: Història i Història de l'Art
Autor/s de la URV: Lozano Pérez, Sergio
Paraules clau: Wild Transmission Social network analysis Primate networks Prehistoric hunter-gatherers Population-size Human social behaviour Evolutionary archaeology Dynamics Diffusion Demography Cultural transmission Cultural evolutionary theory Cultural complexity Computational archaeology Community structure Centrality Archaeological networks Animal social networks
Resum: Over the past decade, a major debate has taken place on the underpinnings of cultural changes in human societies. A growing array of evidence in behavioural and evolutionary biology has revealed that social connectivity among populations and within them affects, and is affected by, culture. Yet the interplay between prehistoric hunter-gatherer social structure and cultural transmission has typically been overlooked. Interestingly, the archaeological record contains large data sets, allowing us to track cultural changes over thousands of years: they thus offer a unique opportunity to shed light on long-term cultural transmission processes. In this review, we demonstrate how well-developed methods for social structure analysis can increase our understanding of the selective pressures underlying cumulative culture. We propose a multilevel analytical framework that considers finer aspects of the complex social structure in which regional groups of prehistoric hunter-gatherers were embedded. We put forward predictions of cultural transmission based on local- and global-level network metrics of small-scale societies and their potential effects on cumulative culture. By bridging the gaps between network science, palaeodemography and cultural evolution, we draw attention to the use of the archaeological record to depict patterns of social interactions and transmission variability. We argue that this new framework will contribute to improving our understanding of social interaction patterns, as well as the contexts in which cultural changes occur. Ultimately, this may provide insights into the evolution of human behaviour.
Àrees temàtiques: General biochemistry,genetics and molecular biology General agricultural and biological sciences Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Biology Biodiversidade Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (miscellaneous) Biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (all) Agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous) Agricultural and biological sciences (all)
Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: sergio.lozano@urv.cat
Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0003-1895-9327
Data d'alta del registre: 2023-02-19
Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enllaç font original: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12599
URL Document de llicència: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referència a l'article segons font original: Biological Reviews. 95 (4): 1020-1035
Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Romano, Valeria; Lozano, Sergi; de Pablo, Javier Fernandez-Lopez; (2020). A multilevel analytical framework for studying cultural evolution in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies. Biological Reviews, 95(4), 1020-1035. DOI: 10.1111/brv.12599
DOI de l'article: 10.1111/brv.12599
Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Any de publicació de la revista: 2020
Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
Repositori URV