Hunter Gatherers, Technology and Social Tradition

As part of my work as a co-PI at the AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity (CECD) I have focused on investigating the links between social learning and the replication and diversification of technological traditions and languages in hunter-gatherer societies, pioneering the application of models and methods from the biological sciences to the analysis of factors generating and sustaining diversity in material-culture traditions. Regional case-studies have focused on the material culture of hunter-gatherer communities in California, the Gulf of Georgia and Western Siberia, and will form the basis of a new book, which is undergoing peer-review corrections (Research funded by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust).