Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution

Culture is increasingly being framed as a driver of human phenotypes and behaviour. Yet very little is known about variations in the patterns of past social interactions between humans in cultural evolution. The archaeological record, combined with modern evolutionary and analytical approaches, prov...

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Autores: Romano, Valéria, Lozano, Sergi, Fernández López de Pablo, Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Comportament col·lectiu
Evolució cultural
Arqueologia
Collective behavior
Social evolution
Archaeology
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spelling Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolutionRomano, ValériaLozano, SergiFernández López de Pablo, JavierComportament col·lectiuEvolució culturalArqueologiaCollective behaviorSocial evolutionArchaeologyCulture is increasingly being framed as a driver of human phenotypes and behaviour. Yet very little is known about variations in the patterns of past social interactions between humans in cultural evolution. The archaeological record, combined with modern evolutionary and analytical approaches, provides a unique opportunity to investigate broad-scale patterns of cultural change. Prompted by evidence that a population's social connectivity influences cultural variability, in this article, we revisit traditional approaches used to infer cultural evolutionary processes from the archaeological data. We then propose that frameworks considering multi-scalar interactions (from individuals to populations) over time and space have the potential to advance knowledge in cultural evolutionary theory. We describe how social network analysis can be applied to analyse diachronic structural changes and test cultural transmission hypotheses using the archaeological record (here specifically from the Marine Isotope Stage 3 ca 57-29 ka onwards). We argue that the reconstruction of prehistoric networks offers a timely opportunity to test the interplay between social connectivity and culture and ultimately helps to disentangle evolutionary mechanisms in the archaeological record. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines'.The Royal Society2022202220222022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion9 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/183208Articles publicats en revistes (Història Econòmica, Institucions, Política i Economia Mundial)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0318Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022, vol. 377, num. 20200318https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0318info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/683018cc by (c) Romano et al., 2022http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1832082026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
title Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
spellingShingle Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
Romano, Valéria
Comportament col·lectiu
Evolució cultural
Arqueologia
Collective behavior
Social evolution
Archaeology
title_short Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
title_full Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
title_fullStr Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
title_full_unstemmed Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
title_sort Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Romano, Valéria
Lozano, Sergi
Fernández López de Pablo, Javier
author Romano, Valéria
author_facet Romano, Valéria
Lozano, Sergi
Fernández López de Pablo, Javier
author_role author
author2 Lozano, Sergi
Fernández López de Pablo, Javier
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Comportament col·lectiu
Evolució cultural
Arqueologia
Collective behavior
Social evolution
Archaeology
topic Comportament col·lectiu
Evolució cultural
Arqueologia
Collective behavior
Social evolution
Archaeology
description Culture is increasingly being framed as a driver of human phenotypes and behaviour. Yet very little is known about variations in the patterns of past social interactions between humans in cultural evolution. The archaeological record, combined with modern evolutionary and analytical approaches, provides a unique opportunity to investigate broad-scale patterns of cultural change. Prompted by evidence that a population's social connectivity influences cultural variability, in this article, we revisit traditional approaches used to infer cultural evolutionary processes from the archaeological data. We then propose that frameworks considering multi-scalar interactions (from individuals to populations) over time and space have the potential to advance knowledge in cultural evolutionary theory. We describe how social network analysis can be applied to analyse diachronic structural changes and test cultural transmission hypotheses using the archaeological record (here specifically from the Marine Isotope Stage 3 ca 57-29 ka onwards). We argue that the reconstruction of prehistoric networks offers a timely opportunity to test the interplay between social connectivity and culture and ultimately helps to disentangle evolutionary mechanisms in the archaeological record. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines'.
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