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Advances in archaeological method and theory. Volume 3 /
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press,
1980.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Contents of Previous Volumes; Chapter 1. Cult Archaeology and Unscientific Method and Theory; CULT ARCHAEOLOGY; INTERPRETATION OF THE PHENOMENON OF CULT ARCHAEOLOGY; THE NEED TO DEAL WITH CULT ARCHAEOLOGY; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology; EVOLUTION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; MODERN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION AND ARCHAEOLOGY; SOME CONCLUSIONS; THE FUTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN ARCHAEOLOGY; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 3. The Archaeological Study of Adaptation: Theoretical and Methodological IssuesINTRODUCTION; ADAPTATION, EVOLUTION, AND ECOLOGY; CULTURAL ADAPTATION; COMPONENTS OF ADAPTATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ADAPTATION; PROSPECTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. The Use of General Ecological Principles in Archaeology; HOW GENERAL PRINCIPLES ARE USED: AN EXAMPLE; SOME LOGICAL PROBLEMS; THE ECOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Explanatory/Predictive Models of Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation; BACKGROUND; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES.
- GENERAL MODELS OF HUNTER-GATHERER ADAPTATIONMODELS OF SUBSISTENCE; MODELS OF SETTLEMENT LOCATION AND TERRITORIALITY; MODELS OF POPULATION; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. An Optimum Diet Model, Coastal Variability, and Hunter-Gatherer Behavior; INTRODUCTION; MODEL DEFINITIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS; AN ENERGY-BASED MODEL OF COASTAL SYSTEMS; RELATIVE PRODUCTIVITY RANKING OF TERRESTRIAL AND NONTERRESTRIAL ZONES; LEAST EFFORT-LEAST RISK DECISION MAKING AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPECTATIONS; ADDITIONAL COMMENTS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 7. Toward a General Mode! of Agricultural SystemsINTRODUCTION; ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO AGRICULTURE; TOWARD A GENERAL MODEL OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Vicissitudes and Overkill: The Development of Explanation of Pleistocene Extinctions; INTRODUCTION; REALIZATION OF THE PROBLEM; MAJOR NINETEENTH-CENTURY EXPLANATIONS OF PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTIONS; MODERN EXPLANATIONS OF PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTIONS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. Obsidian Hydration Dating: A Coming of Age; INTRODUCTION.
- OBSIDIAN DATING IN ARCHAEOLOGY: CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE POTENTIALOBSIDIAN DATING: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UP TO THE PRESENT; OBSIDIAN DATING AS A CHRONOMETRIC TECHNIQUE: PROBLEMS THAT LIMIT ITS EFFECTIVENESS; THE EFFECT OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION ON THE OBSIDIAN HYDRATION PROCESS: WHAT IS UNDERSTOOD AND WHAT IS TO BE DONE; CURRENT RESEARCH; SPUTTER-INDUCED OPTICAL EMISSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Index.