Investigating Archaeological Cultures

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3 Benjamin W. Roberts Editors Marc Vander Linden Investigating Archaeological Cultures Material Culture, Variability, and Transmission

4 Editors Benjamin W. Roberts Department of Prehistory and Europe The British Museum London UK Marc Vander Linden School of Archaeology and Ancient History University of Leicester Leicester UK ISBN e-isbn DOI / Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (

5 Contents 1 Investigating Archaeological Cultures: Material Culture, Variability, and Transmission... 1 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 3 Thoughts in Circles: Kulturkreislehre as a Hidden Paradigm in Past and Present Archaeological Interpretations Katharina C. Rebay-Salisbury 4 Cultural Innovation from an Americanist Perspective Michael J. O Brien 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 7 Ancient Technology and Archaeological Cultures: Understanding the Earliest Metallurgy in Eurasia Benjamin W. Roberts 8 Culture, Innovation and Interaction Across Southern Iran from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (c bc) Cameron A. Petrie v

6 vi Contents 9 Culture, Tradition and the Settlement Burials of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Culture Daniela Hofmann and Penny Bickle 10 Constructing Social and Cultural Identities in the Bronze Age Kristian Kristiansen 11 Fine if I Do, Fine if I Don t. Dynamics of Technical Knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa Olivier P. Gosselain 12 The Transmission of Technological Skills in the Palaeolithic: Insights from Metapopulation Ecology Terry Hopkinson 13 Steps Towards Operationalising an Evolutionary Archaeological Definition of Culture Felix Riede 14 Archaeology and Cartography: In Search of the Prehistoric Cultures in the Neolithic Near East Olivier Aurenche and Stefan K. Kozlowski 15 To Tame a Land: Archaeological Cultures and the Spread of the Neolithic in Western Europe Marc Vander Linden 16 Are Cultures Inherited? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Origins and Migrations of Austronesian-Speaking Peoples Prior to 1000 bc 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 David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty Index

7 Contributors Olivier Aurenche Université Lumière Lyon-2, Maison de l Orient et de la Méditerranée, France Peter Bellwood School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia David Beresford-Jones Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Penny Bickle Department of Archaeology and Conservation, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Geoffrey Chambers School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Hannah Fluck Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Olivier P. Gosselain Centre d anthropologie culturelle, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium & GAES, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Paul Heggarty Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, leipzig, Germany Daniela Hofmann Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Terry Hopkinson School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK vii

8 viii Contributors Hsiao-chun Hung Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Stefan K. Kozlowski Institute of Archaeology, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warszaw, Poland Kristian Kristiansen Department of Archaeology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Michael J. O Brien University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Cameron A. Petrie Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Ryan J. Rabett McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Katharina C. Rebay-Salisbury School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Felix Riede Department of Archaeology, Institute of Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, Aarhus University, Moesgård, Denmark Benjamin W. Roberts Department of Prehistory and Europe, The British Museum, London, UK Malcolm Ross Department of Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Marc Vander Linden School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK