Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can We Detect Populations in Prehistory?

Chapter 1-Introduction: Into the tangled web of culture-history and convergent evolution.- Chapter 2-The unity of Acheulean culture. Chapter 3-Problems and pitfalls in understanding the Clactonian.- Chapter 4-Culture and convergence: The curious case of the Nubian Complex.- Chapter 5-Lithic variability and cultures in the East African Middle Stone Age.- Chapter 6-A matter of space and time: How frequent is convergence in lithic technology in the African archaeological record over the last 300 kyr?.- Chapter 7-Technology and function of Middle Stone Age points. Insights from a combined approach at Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa.- Chapter 8-Raw material and regionalization in Stone Age East Africa.- Chapter 9-The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition: A long-term biocultural effect of anatomically modern human dispersal.- Chapter 10-Threading the weft, testing the warp: Population concepts and the European Upper Palaeolithic chronocultural framework.- Chapter 11-Communities of interaction: Tradition and learning in stone tool production through the lens of the Epipaleolithic of Kharaneh IV, Jordan.- Chapter 12-Toward a theory of the point.- Chapter 13-Learning strategies and population dynamics during the Pleistocene colonization of North America.- Chapter 14-Culture, environmental adaptation or specific problem solving? On convergence and innovation dynamics related to techniques used for stone heat treatment.- Chapter 15-Style, function and cultural transmission.