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We Have Met the Selectionist and It Is Us: Some Comments on Loney's “Critical Review of Models of Technological Change in Ceramic Studies”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Hector Neff
Hector Neff*
Affiliation:
Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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Abstract

Loney's (2000) recent paper in American Antiquity contains a critique of evolutionary archaeology that is based on fundamental misconceptions. Perhaps most seriously, she confounds the evolutionary archaeologist's conception of culture as an inheritance system based on social learning with an extreme claim about genetic control over cultural traits.

Résumé

Résumé

El artículo de Loney (2000) publicado recientemente en American Antiquity contiene una crítica de la arqueología evolucionaria que manifiesta errores de entendimiento fundamentales. Posiblemente lo mas serio es la confusión entre la idea de que la cultura constituye un sistema de herencia basado en aprendizaje social y la idea de que el control genético sobre rasgos culturales es extremo.

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American Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , October 2001 , pp. 726 - 728
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2001

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