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Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective /

"Contributors illustrate the virtues of various ecological, experimental, statistical, and cognitive/social approaches for understanding the origins, formation histories, and inferential potential of a wide range of archaeological phenomena"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sullivan, Alan P. (Editor ), Olszewski, Deborah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Working with archaeological variability in the 21st century, thinking about materiality, epistemology, and ontology / by Alan P. Sullivan III and Deborah I. Olszewski
  • A lithic perspective on ecological dynamics in the upper pleistocene of western Eurasia / by C. Michael Barton and Julien Riel-Salvatore
  • The significance of "persistent places" in shaping regional settlement history : the case of the Mimbres Mogollon / by Barbara J. Roth
  • Reductive technology and the epipaleolithic of the Middle East and North Africa / by Deborah I. Olszewski
  • Context and complexity on the arid margins of Australia : assessing human responses to an unpredictable environment / by Simon J. Holdaway, Justin I. Shiner, Patricia C. Fanning and Matthew J. Douglass
  • Theoretical implications of artifact-scatter lithic assemblage variability for mobility-based models of technological organization / by Alan P. Sullivan III
  • Timelessness and the legacy of archaeological cartography / by Sissel Schroeder and Lynne Goldstein
  • Sherd cross-joins, ceramic use-wear, and depositional history : rethinking the sociopolitical aftermath of a collapsed Bronze age cistern at Myrtos-Pyrgos, Crete / by Emilia Oddo and Gerald Cadogan
  • Estimating the population size of Casas Grandes: empirical issues and theoretical consequences / by David R. Wilcox
  • Biface production at Tabun : manufacture, maintenance, and morphological variability / by Gary O. Rollefson
  • Celebrating the dead and recrafting social identity : placing prehistoric mortuary practices in broader social context / by Brian F. Byrd and Jeffrey Rosenthal
  • Flint from the ancestors : ritualized use of stone tools in the prehistoric Southwest / by John C. Whittaker and Kathryn A. Kamp
  • Form, function, and mental templates in paleolithic archaeology / by Philip G. Chase
  • The role of controlled experiments in understanding variation in flake production / by Zeljko Rezek, Sam Lin, and Harold L. Dibble.