TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordan,Peter
TI  - Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers
T2  - Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
SN  - 9780520958333
AV  - T14 .T434 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Humanism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Technology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Data Sets; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Northwest Siberia; 4. Pacific Northwest Coast; 5. Northern California; 6. Conclusions; Appendix: Mantel Matrix Correlations; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; 2; b
N2  - Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology-prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradit
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