Title Statements
- Full title :Behavioral archaeology : principles and practice / Michael Brian Schiffer ; with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and contributions by James M. Skibo and William H. Walker.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Equinox
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 220 p. : : illustraties. ; : 26 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1845532872, 9781845532871, 1845532880, 9781845532888
- oclc:ocn892966948
- LC Classification:CC80
- Dewey Decimal:930.1
Table of Contents
Origins and the four strategies of behavioral archaeology -- Conceptual foundations -- Archaeological inference -- Cultural formation processes -- Noncultural (environmental) formation processes -- Identifying formation processes -- Building chronologies : a Hohokam case study -- The archaeological process -- Research on technology : history and overview -- Studying technological change / with James M. Skibo -- Ceramic surface treatments and cooking pot performance -- Folk theories and scientific theories : the case of the early electric automobile -- Long-term technological competitions -- Technological differentiation -- Differential adoption and the electric lighthouse -- The cascade model of invention processes -- The "new" behavioral archaeology -- Ritual and religion / Kacy L. Hollenback -- A behavioral theory of meaning / with the assistance of Andrea R. Miller -- The materiality of social power / with William H. Walker -- Landscapes / Kacy L. Hollenback.
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