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Paul Roscoe

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Publications

29

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1.2K

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Active since

1987

Affiliations

University of Maine(Current)

University of Georgia

Field Museum of Natural History

Paul Roscoe is an author at University of Maine specializing in anthropology, social anthropology, and cultural anthropology.

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AnthropologySocial AnthropologyCultural AnthropologyLanguageEducationSocial SciencesArchaeologyHistorical GeographyCultureColonialism

Publications per year

1987–2023

29

Publications

29

Cooperation and Collective Action in the Cultural Evolution of Complex Societies

David M. Carballo, Paul Roscoe, Gary M. Feinman · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · 2012 · 231 citations

Culture, Complex Societies, Cultural Dynamic +9

Social Signaling and the Organization of Small-Scale Society: The Case of Contact-Era New Guinea

Paul Roscoe · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · 2009 · 104 citations

Social Signaling, Social Process, Social Organization +9

Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Approach to Political Evolution [and Comments and Reply]

Paul Roscoe, Christopher Boehm, Carol R. Ember et al. · Current Anthropology · 1993 · 88 citations

Democracy, Political Centralisation, Political Development +7

Archaeological climate proxies and the complexities of reconstructing Holocene El Niño in coastal Peru

Daniel H. Sandweiss, C. Fred T. Andrus, Alice R. Kelley et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 68 citations · Full text

Engineering, Archaeology, Earth Science +17

The Perils of ‘Positivism’ in Cultural Anthropology

Paul Roscoe · American Anthropologist · 1995 · 63 citations

Education, Positivism, Cognitive Anthropology +18

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