The Applications and Challenges of Cultural Phylogenetics in Archaeology: An Introduction

Straffon, Larissa Mendoza

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“…In this framework, the tree-like structure of the cladogram represents the degree of kinship relationship interpreted through the notions of variation and inheritance which are at the source of the appearance of new taxa. All of these points justify the use of cladistics to reconstruct kinship relationships between cultural entities (e.g., Dunnell, 1978;Lyman & O'Brien, 1997;O'Brien & Lyman, 2000O'Brien et al, 2012;Shennan, 2011Shennan, , 2008Shennan, , 2002 , recently repeated and discussed (Lycett, 2015;Mesoudi, 2016;Straffon, 2016).…”

Section: Cladistics and Archaeologymentioning

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Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)

Rineau

Moncel

Zeitoun³

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Notarchirico is at a nodal point in time and space for understanding the settlement of Europe in terms of migration or in situ evolution. Former technological analyses have not shown significant differences between the different lithic assemblages at Notarchirico. Our approach here is to produce a phylogenetic analysis of the lithic assemblages taken as the terminal of the analysis and interpreted as cultural units. In the cladistic framework, characters are hypotheses of relationships between lithic assemblages, and homologies are hypotheses of relationships between lithic objects; cores, flakes, nodules. To effectively grasp informative lithic innovations in the assemblages, we formalise cladistic hypotheses as hierarchical characters in the framework of three-item analysis, and propose a new algorithm to remove the high number of repeated terminals among trees inherent to a cladistic analysis of assemblages. Beyond the classic distinction of the presence or absence of bifaces, our analysis of the five Notarchirico layers, dated between 670 and 700 ka, highlights a well-supported cladogram grounded on complex hierarchical characters on lithic artefacts. This cladogram shows a paralogy event between the flakefree layer H, representing short-term occupancy, and the other layers representing long-term settlements. The resulting cladogram shows that relationships between lithic assemblages at Notarchirico do not follow the stratigraphy. Moreover, the Notarchirico lithic assemblages cannot be explained in an entirely local way, but seem to be part of a more complex European history.

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Section: Cladistics and Archaeologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)

Rineau

Moncel

Zeitoun³

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…These methods were often advertised as "model-free" (Harmon et al 2006) as the principle of parsimony is used to infer how traits change over time. Parsimony advocates that nature favors simplicity and that trees with the fewest number of changes are the trees that best represent the evolutionary relationships between taxa (Straffon 2016). When presented with a range of phylogenetic hypotheses, parsimony acts as the optimality criterion for selecting among the different trees (García Rivero 2016).…”

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Contributions of Bayesian Phylogenetics to Exploring Patterns of Macroevolution in Archaeological Data

Gjesfjeld

Jordan²

2019

Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology

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Calebasses anthropophages et dévoreurs africains

Quellec¹

2021

afriques

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Le corpus des mythes de la « Calebasse dévorante » est ici enrichi et complété, de même que celui des mythes diluviens, non rares en Afrique contrairement à une opinion répandue. Les méthodes phylomémétiques montrent que la répartition des mythes africains du Dévoreur s’explique au mieux en supposant l’existence de deux groupes. Leur aréologie suggère qu’une version eurasiatique aurait été introduite en Afrique de l’Est et qu’elle s’y serait alors propagée en s’enrichissant du développement strictement africain selon lequel un Dévoreur anthropomorphe, une fois tué, est brûlé, mais renaît sous la forme d’une calebasse monstrueuse poussant sur ses cendres ; alors ce fruit se met lui aussi à dévorer tout le monde, et il faut donc vaincre une seconde fois le Dévoreur ainsi « réincarné ». Cette nouvelle variante se serait diffusée vers l’ouest et le sud en donnant naissance aux récits dans lesquels ne figure plus que la calebasse, et ces nouvelles versions se seraient plus particulièrement implantées à l’ouest du continent en s’enrichissant d’un nouveau motif : celui selon lequel le vainqueur de ce Dévoreur végétal n’est plus un humain, mais un animal, et plus particulièrement un bélier.

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The Applications and Challenges of Cultural Phylogenetics in Archaeology: An Introduction

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)

Revealing Evolutionary Patterns Behind Homogeneity: the Case of the Palaeolithic Assemblages from Notarchirico (Southern Italy)

Contributions of Bayesian Phylogenetics to Exploring Patterns of Macroevolution in Archaeological Data

Calebasses anthropophages et dévoreurs africains

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