All Outputs (48)

Kinship, marriage, and the genetics of past human dispersals. (2009)
Journal Article
Bentley, R., Layton, R., & Tehrani, J. (2009). Kinship, marriage, and the genetics of past human dispersals. Human Biology: The Official Publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, 81(2-3), 159-179. https://doi.org/10.3378/027.081.0304

The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or “replaced” indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist “admixture” is often represented in genetic mod... Read More about Kinship, marriage, and the genetics of past human dispersals..

Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions (2008)
Journal Article
Tehrani, J., & Riede, F. (2008). Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions. World Archaeology, 40(3), 316-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240802261267

In this article we seek to build on efforts to apply the insights of social learning theory to interpret patterns of continuity and change in the archaeological record. This literature suggests that stable and often highly arbitrary material culture... Read More about Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions.

Language is nothing special: Response to "Across the curious parallel of language and species evolution" by J. Whitfield (2008)
Journal Article
Tehrani, J., Bentley, R., & O'Brien, M. (2008). Language is nothing special: Response to "Across the curious parallel of language and species evolution" by J. Whitfield. PLoS Biology, 6, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060186

The role of ethnography in the science of cultural evolution (Comment on Mesoudi, Whiten and Laland). (2006)
Journal Article
Tehrani, J. (2006). The role of ethnography in the science of cultural evolution (Comment on Mesoudi, Whiten and Laland). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 363-364

Branching versus blending in macroscale cultural evolution: a comparative study. (2006)
Book Chapter
Collard, M., Shennan, S., & Tehrani, J. (2006). Branching versus blending in macroscale cultural evolution: a comparative study. In C. Lipo, M. O'Brien, M. Collard, & S. Shennan (Eds.), Mapping Our Ancestors (53-63). (1). Aldine Transaction

Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations (2006)
Journal Article
Collard, M., Shennan, S., & Tehrani, J. (2006). Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27(3), 169-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.07.003

It has been claimed that blending processes such as trade and exchange have always been more important in the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations than the branching process of population fissioning. In this pape... Read More about Branching, blending, and the evolution of cultural similarities and differences among human populations.

Phylogenesis versus ethnogenesis in Turkmen cultural evolution. (2005)
Book Chapter
Collard, M., & Tehrani, J. (2005). Phylogenesis versus ethnogenesis in Turkmen cultural evolution. In R. Mace, C. Holden, & S. Shennan (Eds.), The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach (109-132). UCL Press

Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles (2002)
Journal Article
Tehrani, J., & Collard, M. (2002). Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 21(4), 443-463. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0278-4165%2802%2900002-8

The debate on the evolution of culture has focused on two processes in particular, phylogenesis and ethnogenesis. Recently, it has been suggested that the latter has probably always been more significant than the former. This proposal was assessed by... Read More about Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles.