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  • Chapter 1 - Introduction

  • Giorgio Buccellati, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    A Critique of Archaeological Reason
    Published online:
    18 May 2017
    Print publication:
    24 April 2017, pp 1-10
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  • Contrasting Histories in Early Bronze Age Aegean: Uniformity, Regionalism and the Resilience of Societies in the Northeast Peloponnese and Central Crete

  • Erika Weiberg
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 27 / Issue 3 / August 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 April 2017, pp. 479-494

  • Late Early Bronze Age (EB IIB–III, 2500–2000 bc ) evidence from the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete present two coeval sequences of events with very different societal outcomes. By drawing on resilience theory and the model of adaptive cycles, this article explores when and why the paths of mainland Greece and Crete diverged around 2200 bc , leading to an eventually destabilizing change on the mainland and a more sustainable one on Crete. It is argued that the two EB II societal structures were more similar than current discourse generally allows. However, during some hundred years leading up to the end of the EB II period, an increased societal uniformity and a decrease of social arenas on northeast Peloponnese may in the end have circumscribed the Early Helladic communities’ room to manoeuvre. Conversely, through strong regionalism and greater multiplicity of social arenas, Early Minoan societies seem to have retained a greater level of socio-economic variability that enabled proactiveness and sustained expansion through ideological change.

  • Cognitive Fluidity and Acheulean Over-imitation

  • Matt J. Rossano
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 27 / Issue 3 / August 2017
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    04 April 2017, pp. 495-509

  • This paper analyses recently discussed evidence of over-imitation in Acheulean biface construction. First, it evaluates the argument for over-imitation using the available archaeological and cognitive science evidence. Next, it applies the four major theories of over-imitation, (1) Copy and Correct (C&C), (2) Automatic Causal Encoding (ACE), (3) social affiliation and (4) normative theory, as potential explanations for Acheulean over-imitation. ACE theory is the most likely explanation for early biface over-imitation (before 500,000 years bp), with social affiliation becoming increasingly likely after that. Normative over-imitation probably did not occur until around 300,000 years bp, when both the necessary hominin cognitive capacities and social conditions were present. An important conclusion emerging from this analysis is that over-imitation requires an integration of social and technical intelligence. Thus, the origins of cognitive fluidity may date back to as early as a million years ago, well before material evidence of fluidity is present.

  • CAJ volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal / Volume 27 / Issue 2 / May 2017
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    04 April 2017, pp. b1-b2
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