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Environmental Metaculture
Environmental metaculture can be considered to be an expanded notion of human metaculture that deals primarily with human metacultural relationships with the environment at many different levels at which this occurs. Metaculture in this sense is more than about cultural transmission or the inter-cultural context for transmission, but the interaction and transmission that occurs across-species and within larger environmental contexts.
Human beings have long been predators and exploiters of their environment. Domestication of flora and fauna proceeded during the late neolithic and constituted the basis for the development of state-organization and social patterning. Large human populations had been previously achieved in regions with resource rich regions, but these social organizations were invariably pre-state in political development.
The links to the primary portals of this framework are found below:
