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NICHEAnthropology; Archaeology; Europe; Final Palaeolithic; Early Mesolithic; cultural taxonomy;
cultural transmission; distribution modelling;
Abstract:
It is often claimed that changes in material culture signify adaptations to changing environments. Deploying novel conceptual models and computational techniques, research funded by the European Research Council seeks to reconstruct the patterns and processes of cultural transmission and adaptation at the turbulent transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene.