THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Libro de R. A. Foley (1991)


Introduction: investigating the origins of human behaviour R.A.Foley

1 Chimpanzee material culture: what are its limits and why?
W.C.McGrew

Introduction
Culture and symbols
Environment and adaptation
Diet
Home bases
Technology
Conclusions

2 How useful is the culture concept in early hominid studies?
R.A.Foley

Introduction
Definitions of culture
The use of culture in palaeoanthropology
The inadequacy of culture
Those damned chimpanzees
The evolution of complex and flexible behaviour
Conclusions

3 The significance of modern hunter-gatherers in the study of early hominid behaviour
Francis B.Musonda

Introduction
Environmental setting
Settlement patterns
Subsistence activities
Social organization
Conclusions

4 Archaeological evidence for modern intelligence
Thomas Wynn

Introduction
Archaeology and intelligence
A Piagetian approach to prehistoric intelligence
Concrete operations
Archaeological evidence for concrete operations
Formal operations
Archaeological evidence for formal operations
Critique of formal operations
Conclusions

5 The invention of computationally plausible knowledge systems in the Upper Palaeolithic Sheldon Klein

The problem of computing human behaviour by rules
The basic structure of the invention
ATOs, language, and culture
ATOs and the ontogeny of shamanism
The evidence of Lévi-Strauss
Testing the ATO model in historical time
Conclusions

6 An interactive growth model applied to the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic populations
Ezra B.W.Zubrow

The background
The model
Results from the model
Conclusions

7 Aboriginal fossil hominids: evolution and migrations
Phillip J.Habgood