Contents

1 Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture,

Variability, and Transmission...........................................................................
Benjamin W. Roberts and Marc Vander Linden

2 A Tale of Two Countries: Contrasting Archaeological

Culture History in British and French Archaeology................................
Marc Vander Linden and Benjamin W. Roberts

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3 Thoughts in Circles: Kulturkreislehre as a Hidden Paradigm

in Past and Present Archaeological Interpretations.................................
Katharina C. Rebay-Salisbury

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4 Cultural Innovation from an Americanist Perspective............................

Michael J. OBrien
5 Culture in the Lower Palaeolithic: Technological Variability
in Middle Pleistocene Europe.........................................................................
Hannah Fluck
6 Techno-Modes, Techno-Facies and Palaeo-Cultures:
Change and Continuity in the Pleistocene of Southeast,
Central and North Asia...................................................................................
Ryan J. Rabett

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7 Ancient Technology and Archaeological Cultures:

Understanding the Earliest Metallurgy in Eurasia................................... 137
Benjamin W. Roberts
8 Culture, Innovation and Interaction Across Southern Iran
from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (c. 65003000 bc)......................... 151
Cameron A. Petrie

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9 Culture, Tradition and the Settlement Burials

of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Culture................................................. 183
Daniela Hofmann and Penny Bickle
10 Constructing Social and Cultural Identities in the Bronze Age........... 201
Kristian Kristiansen
11 Fine if I Do, Fine if I Dont. Dynamics of Technical Knowledge
in Sub-Saharan Africa................................................................................... 211
Olivier P. Gosselain
12 The Transmission of Technological Skills in the Palaeolithic:
Insights from Metapopulation Ecology..................................................... 229
Terry Hopkinson
13 Steps Towards Operationalising an Evolutionary
Archaeological Definition of Culture.......................................................... 245
Felix Riede
14 Archaeology and Cartography: In Search of the Prehistoric
Cultures in the Neolithic Near East............................................................ 271
Olivier Aurenche and Stefan K. Kozlowski
15 To Tame a Land: Archaeological Cultures and the Spread
of the Neolithic in Western Europe............................................................. 289
Marc Vander Linden
16 Are Cultures Inherited? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the
Origins and Migrations of Austronesian-Speaking Peoples
Prior to 1000 bc............................................................................................... 321
Peter Bellwood, Geoffrey Chambers, Malcolm Ross,
and Hsiao-chun Hung
17 What Role for Language Prehistory in Redefining Archaeological
Culture? A Case Study on New Horizons in the Andes..................... 355
David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty
Index........................................................................................................................... 387

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