13 Feb
2014
13 Feb
'14
10:18 a.m.
Dear All,
Please find the colloquium speaker`s name corrected. Sorry for the
mistake.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to a talk
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Stephen Shennan (UCL)
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 17:00 - 18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Frankel Leó út 30-34.,
Room G15
Modelling prehistoric cultural transmission
The archaeological record provides the only source of information on
cultural transmission in prehistory. It is therefore an important source
of information on the kinds of transmission bias and selection processes
prevalent in the past; for example, it can potentially tell us about the
likely importance of conformist transmission, which plays an important
role in many accounts of cultural evolution, as well as providing
information on the degree of transmission fidelity. A major problem of
course is that the only information we have is from the artefacts
themselves and their spatial and temporal position. On the other hand,
archaeological data are intrinsically quantitative and provide
information on intra-population variation rarely available from other
naturalistic (as opposed to experimental) studies, which mainly offer
normative descriptions. The talk will outline some recent modelling
studies designed to take advantage of the latter to overcome the former
and thus throw light on cultural transmission in Europe’s first farming
communities.
We're looking forward to see you there (Frankel Leo u .
30-34)!Cognitive Science Events at CEU:
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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