Behavioral archaeology: principles and practice
This text is a synthesis of the fundamenal method of theory and behavioural archaeology, organized in terms of the temporal order in which general topics have been addressed. The development of key ideas is recounted in relation to the historical contexts in which they emerged.
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- Full title :Behavioral archaeology : principles and practice / Michael Brian Schiffer ; with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and contributions by Kacy L. Hollenback, James M. Skibo and William H. Walker.
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This text is a synthesis of the fundamenal method of theory and behavioural archaeology, organized in terms of the temporal order in which general topics have been addressed. The development of key ideas is recounted in relation to the historical contexts in which they emerged.
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- Publication Date:2010.
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- Publisher(s):Equinox Pub
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
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- Description:x, 220 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781845532871, 1845532872, 9781845532888, 1845532880
- oclc:ocn370387727
- 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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