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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2016 NetherlandsPublisher:The Royal Society Funded by:SSHRC, ARC | Discovery Projects - Gran..., ARC | Forty-two degrees of lati...SSHRC ,ARC| Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100586 ,ARC| Forty-two degrees of latitude: comparative archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France during the last Ice AgeAuthors: Collard, M.; Vaesen, K.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, W.;Collard, M.; Vaesen, K.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, W.;Recently, it has become commonplace to interpret major transitions and other patterns in the Palaeolithic archaeological record in terms of population size. Increases in cultural complexity are claimed to result from increases in population size; decreases in cultural complexity are suggested to be due to decreases in population size; and periods of no change are attributed to low numbers or frequent extirpation. In this paper, we argue that this approach is not defensible. We show that the available empirical evidence does not support the idea that cultural complexity in hunter–gatherers is governed by population size. Instead, ethnographic and archaeological data suggest that hunter–gatherer cultural complexity is most strongly influenced by environmental factors. Because all hominins were hunter–gatherers until the Holocene, this means using population size to interpret patterns in the Palaeolithic archaeological record is problematic. In future, the population size hypothesis should be viewed as one of several competing hypotheses and its predictions formally tested alongside those of its competitors.This article is part of the themed issue ‘Major transitions in human evolution’.
NARCIS arrow_drop_down Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesArticleData sources: UnpayWallPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences; NARCISArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Royal Society Data Sharing and AccessibilityLeiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016License: CC BYData sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 67 citations 67 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert NARCIS arrow_drop_down Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesArticleData sources: UnpayWallPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences; NARCISArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Royal Society Data Sharing and AccessibilityLeiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016License: CC BYData sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Other literature type , Article 2016 NetherlandsPublisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Funded by:ARC | Forty-two degrees of lati..., SSHRCARC| Forty-two degrees of latitude: comparative archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France during the last Ice Age ,SSHRCAuthors: Vaesen, K.; Collard, M.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, J.W.M.;Vaesen, K.; Collard, M.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, J.W.M.;handle: 1887/3202194 , 1887/3200043
pmc: PMC4843435 , PMC5098611 , PMC5098628
Demography is increasingly being invoked to account for features of the archaeological record, such as the technological conservatism of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, and cultural loss in Holocene Tasmania. Such explanations are commonly justified in relation to population dynamic models developed by Henrich [Henrich J (2004) Am Antiq 69:197-214] and Powell et al. [Powell A, et al. (2009) Science 324(5932):1298-1301], which appear to demonstrate that population size is the crucial determinant of cultural complexity. Here, we show that these models fail in two important respects. First, they only support a relationship between demography and culture in implausible conditions. Second, their predictions conflict with the available archaeological and ethnographic evidence. We conclude that new theoretical and empirical research is required to identify the factors that drove the changes in cultural complexity that are documented by the archaeological record.
NARCIS arrow_drop_down NARCIS; Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research PortalLeiden University Scholarly Publications Repository; NARCISArticle . 2016Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016Data sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOther literature type . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 130 citations 130 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert NARCIS arrow_drop_down NARCIS; Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research PortalLeiden University Scholarly Publications Repository; NARCISArticle . 2016Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016Data sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOther literature type . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 2016 NetherlandsPublisher:The Royal Society Funded by:SSHRC, ARC | Discovery Projects - Gran..., ARC | Forty-two degrees of lati...SSHRC ,ARC| Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150100586 ,ARC| Forty-two degrees of latitude: comparative archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France during the last Ice AgeAuthors: Collard, M.; Vaesen, K.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, W.;Collard, M.; Vaesen, K.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, W.;Recently, it has become commonplace to interpret major transitions and other patterns in the Palaeolithic archaeological record in terms of population size. Increases in cultural complexity are claimed to result from increases in population size; decreases in cultural complexity are suggested to be due to decreases in population size; and periods of no change are attributed to low numbers or frequent extirpation. In this paper, we argue that this approach is not defensible. We show that the available empirical evidence does not support the idea that cultural complexity in hunter–gatherers is governed by population size. Instead, ethnographic and archaeological data suggest that hunter–gatherer cultural complexity is most strongly influenced by environmental factors. Because all hominins were hunter–gatherers until the Holocene, this means using population size to interpret patterns in the Palaeolithic archaeological record is problematic. In future, the population size hypothesis should be viewed as one of several competing hypotheses and its predictions formally tested alongside those of its competitors.This article is part of the themed issue ‘Major transitions in human evolution’.
NARCIS arrow_drop_down Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesArticleData sources: UnpayWallPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences; NARCISArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Royal Society Data Sharing and AccessibilityLeiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016License: CC BYData sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 67 citations 67 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert NARCIS arrow_drop_down Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological SciencesArticleData sources: UnpayWallPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences; NARCISArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Royal Society Data Sharing and AccessibilityLeiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016License: CC BYData sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Other literature type , Article 2016 NetherlandsPublisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Funded by:ARC | Forty-two degrees of lati..., SSHRCARC| Forty-two degrees of latitude: comparative archaeologies of southwest Tasmania and southwest France during the last Ice Age ,SSHRCAuthors: Vaesen, K.; Collard, M.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, J.W.M.;Vaesen, K.; Collard, M.; Cosgrove, R.; Roebroeks, J.W.M.;handle: 1887/3202194 , 1887/3200043
pmc: PMC4843435 , PMC5098611 , PMC5098628
Demography is increasingly being invoked to account for features of the archaeological record, such as the technological conservatism of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene, the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, and cultural loss in Holocene Tasmania. Such explanations are commonly justified in relation to population dynamic models developed by Henrich [Henrich J (2004) Am Antiq 69:197-214] and Powell et al. [Powell A, et al. (2009) Science 324(5932):1298-1301], which appear to demonstrate that population size is the crucial determinant of cultural complexity. Here, we show that these models fail in two important respects. First, they only support a relationship between demography and culture in implausible conditions. Second, their predictions conflict with the available archaeological and ethnographic evidence. We conclude that new theoretical and empirical research is required to identify the factors that drove the changes in cultural complexity that are documented by the archaeological record.
NARCIS arrow_drop_down NARCIS; Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research PortalLeiden University Scholarly Publications Repository; NARCISArticle . 2016Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016Data sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOther literature type . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen bronze 130 citations 130 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!more_vert NARCIS arrow_drop_down NARCIS; Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesArticle . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research PortalLeiden University Scholarly Publications Repository; NARCISArticle . 2016Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryArticle . 2016Data sources: Leiden University Scholarly Publications RepositoryProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOther literature type . 2016Data sources: Eindhoven University of Technology Research Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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