Lecture this Friday (10/26): Stephen Shennan on "The Archaeology of Cultural Evolution"

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World invites you to:

Stephen Shennan
The Archaeology of Cultural Evolution

Friday, October 26 at 5:30 pm
Mencoff Hall (68 Waterman Street)

Stephen Shennan is Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Theoretical Archaeology at University College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He is author of many texts, including "Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution" and "A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present" (with R. Layton & P. Stone).  His talk will examine the implications of adopting the Darwinian perspective on cultural evolution in the methods and approaches of archaeologists.