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Pattern and process in cultural evolution : an introduction / Stephen Shennan
Understanding cultural transmission
Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution / Alex Mesoudi and Michael J. O'Brien
Human communication as niche construction / Robert Aunger
Modes of transmission and material culture patterns in craft skills / Robert Hosfield
Linking pattern to process in cultural evolution : explaining material culture diversity among the northern Khanty of northwest Siberia / Peter Jordan
Tangled trees : modeling material culture evolution as host-associate cospeciation / Felix Riede
The evolution of material culture diversity among Iranian tribal populations / Jamshid J. Tehrani and Mark Collard
Evolutionary explanation and the record of interest : using evolutionary archaeology and dual inheritance theory to explain the archaeological record / Ethan E. Cochrane
Identifying iron production lineages : a case study in northwest Wales / Michael F. Charlton
Testing evolutionary hypotheses
Quantitative analysis of macroevolutionary patterning in technological evolution : bicycle design from 1800 to 2000 / Mark W. Lake and Jay Venti
Innovation diffusion and traveling waves / James Steele
Explaining global patterns in lower palaeolithic technology : simulations of hominin dispersal and cultural transmission using stepping out / Sam Smith, John Hughes, and Steven Mithen
Population history and the evolution of mesolithic arrowhead technology in south Scandinavia / Kevan Edinborough
Experimentation and innovation in the archaeological record : a case study in technological evolution from Kodiak, Alaska / Ben Fitzhugh and A. Kate Trusler
Social evolution
Mind the bonding gap : constraints on the evolution of hominin societies / R.I.M. Dunbar
Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation : a maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices / Laura Fortunato and Ruth Mace
Parent-offspring conflict in marriage : implications for social evolution and material culture among the Ju/'hoansi bushmen / Polly Wiessner
Prestige goods and the formation of political hierarchy : a costly signaling model / Aimée M. Plourde
Population and warfare : a test of the Turchin model in Pueblo societies / Timothy A. Kohler, Sarah Cole, and Stanca Ciupe
An ecological model for the emergence of institutionalized social hierarchies on California's northern Channel Islands / Douglas J. Kennett ... [et al.]
Population, sociopolitical simplification, and cultural evolution of Levantine neolithic villages / Ian Kuijt.

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