Behavioral archaeology: principles and practice

by Schiffer, Michael Brian

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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

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Publication Date:2010

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Publisher(s):Equinox Publishing
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010

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Description:x, 220 p.

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ISBN:9781845532871, 1845532872
oclc:ocn890626208

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