1. 1. Cultural Transmission from an Archaeological PerspectiveMicke Nordin
2. 2. Culture from an Archaeological Perspective Traditional archaeology Traditional archaeology defines culture as a set of artefacts that occur together during a certain period in time.
3. 3. Culture from an Archaeological Perspective Processual archaeology "Culture, man's extrasomatic means of adaptation to the environment" - Binford 1972:106
4. 4. Culture from an Archaeological Perspective Darwinian archaeology "Culture is information capable of affecting individuals' phenotypes which they acquire from conspecifics by teaching or imitation" - Boyd & Richerson 1985:33
5. 5. Culture from an Archaeological Perspective Memes "A meme is a postulated unit or element of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, and is transmitted from one mind to another through speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena."- Wikipedia "Meme" 2009-10-29
6. 6. Culture from an Archaeological Perspective Why is Cultural Transmission important?
7. 7. Culture from an Archaeological Perspective Why is Cultural Transmission important?
8. 8. Culture from an Archaeological Perspective Why is Cultural Transmission important?
9. 9. Modes of transmission
10. 10. Modes of transmission
    • Unbiased Transmission
11. 11. Modes of transmission
    • Unbiased Transmission
    • 12. Biased Transmission
12. 13. Modes of transmission
    • Unbiased Transmission
    • 14. Biased Transmission
    • 15. conformist-biased transmission
13. 16. Modes of transmission
    • Unbiased Transmission
    • 17. Biased Transmission
    • 18. conformist-biased transmission
    • 19. prestige-biased transmission
14. 20. Modes of transmission
15. 21. Copyright in Prehistory
16. 22. Copyright in Prehistory Chane dopratoire
17. 23. Copyright in Prehistory
18. 24. Copyright in Prehistory
19. 25. Copyright in Prehistory Main Site
20. 26. Copyright in Prehistory Copyright Island
21. 27. Does Culture Want to be Copied?
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