Table of Contents

Framing the Issues: Evolution of the Social Brain
1: Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, and John Gowlett: The Social Brain and its Distributed Mind
2: Clive Gamble: Technologies of Separation and the Evolution of Social Extension
3: Yonas Beyene: Herto Brains and Minds: Behaviour of Early Homo Sapiens from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia
The Nature of Network: Bonds of Sociality
4: Julia Lehmann, Katherine Andrews, and Robin Dunbar: Social Complexity and the Importance of Indirect Relationships: Social Networks in Primates
5: Robert Layton and Sean O'Hara: Fission-Fusion Behaviour in Chimpanzees and Hunter-Gatherers
6: Sam Roberts: Constraints on Social Networks
7: Anna Wallette: Social Networks and Community in the Viking Age
Evolving Bonds of Sociality
8: Robin Dunbar: Deacon's Dilemma: the Problem of Pairbonding in Human Evolution
9: Julie Hui and Terrence Deacon: The Evolution of Altruism via Social Addiction
10: Dwight Read: From Experiential-Based to Relational-Based forms of Social Organization: a Major Transition in the Evolution of Homo Sapiens
11: Carl Knappett: Networks and the Evolution of Socio-Material Differentiation
The Reach of the Brain: Modern Humans and Distributed Minds
12: Alan Barnard: When Individuals Do Not Stop at the Skin
13: Holly Arrow: Cliques, Coalitions, Comrades, and Colleagues: Sources of Cohesion in Groups
14: Richard Sosis: Evolutionary Signalling Theory and Religion: Recent Advances and Future Directions
15: Paul Connerton: Some Functions of Collective Forgetting
16: Mark Rowlands: Consciousness and Culture
Testing the Past: Archaeology and the Social Brain in Past Action
17: John Gowlett: Firing up the Intellect
18: Lawrence Barham: Multi-Tasking and the Social Brain in Middle Pleistocene Africa
19: Matt Grove: The Archaeology of Group Size
20: John Chapman: Fragmenting Hominins and the Presencing of Early Palaeolithic Social Worlds
21: Fiona Coward: Small Worlds, Material Culture and Ancient Near Eastern Social Networks
22: Steve Mithen: Brain, Mind and Material Culture in Evolutionary Perspective

About the Author

Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Clive Gamble is Professor of Geography at the Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow of the British Academy.

John Gowlett is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.

Reviews

There is much of value to this volume. April Nowell, Antiquity.