![]() Data from more than 50 archaeological sites spanning more than 3000 years was examined across a range of disciplines, materials and methodologies, including: archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, osteology, genomics, palaeodemography, palaeopathology, site catchment analysis, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, mortuary practices, architecture, material culture and stone tools. These preconditions and predictions were assessed against early Holocene archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records from the southern Levant. A maladaptive model of runaway agricultural evolution was developed, and a series of preconditions and predictions were derived. ![]() ![]() ![]() cultural group selection and tribal social instincts) were scrutinised, and shown to be inadequate for modelling the evolution of early agriculturally-dependent societies. optimal foraging theory and nutritional ecology) and cultural transmission theory (e.g. Adaptive models from human behavioural ecology (e.g. An approach to sustainability was formulated in terms of niche construction theory and resilience thinking. A Darwinian theory of subsistence evolution was developed from first principles, framed in terms of cultural transmission or dual-inheritance theory. A runaway model of agricultural evolution was developed to account for patterns of development and sustainability among the Pre-Pottery Neolithic societies of the southern Levant, and to provide insights into contemporary patterns of development and sustainability. ![]()
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