Collaborators through Time

Alex Bentley is a professor of anthropology and director of the Computational Social Sciences program at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin and spent much of his career in the United Kingdom, holding academic positions at University College London, Durham University, and the University of Bristol. Bentley specializes in computational social science and the archaeology of early Neolithic societies, exploring the deep past and near future of cultural evolution. Michael J. O’Brien is a professor of history and psychology at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and previously served as dean of the College of Arts and Science and professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri. O’Brien’s research focuses on applying evolutionary theory and methods to solve archaeological problems. He is a pioneer in the use of phylogenetic methods in archaeology and the application of niche construction theory to understanding human behavior.

• Preface1. Us2. Other Species 3. Other People4. Other Organisms5. Other Generations6. Other Traditions7. Other Networks8. Another and Another8. Other IntelligenceBibliographyIndex

Collaborators through Time uses the rich and often surprising evidence of archaeology to give us a fresh perspective on human culture and the future of our species; moving back and forth across the millennia, its chapters are consistently thought-provoking, while avoiding the kind of platitudes that plague most books of this genre.