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Cultural Evolution in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene of Southeast Asia 1
Author(s) -
DUNN FREDERICK L.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1970.72.5.02a00030
Subject(s) - holocene , mainland , prehistory , pleistocene , population , southeast asia , history , geography , anthropology , ethnology , archaeology , demography , sociology
Cultural adaptation and change in mainland and insular southeast Asia in the late Pleistocene and early to middle Holocene are examined in this paper with the aid of several concepts borrowed from population genetics. The concepts of cultural flow, cultural homeostasis, the cultural pool, and the cultural isolate prove particularly useful in interpreting the prehistoric record in the area in the broadest possible terms. Two areal traditions, the “conservative” and the “innovative,” emerge from the analysis and are formally defined.