Research Catalog

Title

Evolutionary and interpretive archaeologies : a discussion / Ethan E. Cochrane, Andrew Gardner (editors).

Publication

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Cochrane, Ethan E.
• Gardner, Andrew, 1973-

Description

361 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics- agency, violence, social groups, diffusion- from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives. These two strands represent the major current theoretical poles in the discipline. By comparing and contrasting the insights they provide into major archaeological themes, this volume demonstrates the importance of theoretical frameworks in archaeological interpretations. Chapter authors discuss relevant Darwinian or interpretive theory with short archaeological and anthropological case studies to illustrate the substantive conclusions produced. The book will advance debate and contribute to a better understanding of the goals and research strategies that comprise these distinct research traditions. -- Back Cover.

Series Statement

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Uniform Title

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Subject

• Archaeology > Methodology
• Archaeology > Philosophy
• Social archaeology
• Evolution
• Violence
• War and civilization
• Social change
• Arkeologi > metodik
• Arkeologi > filosofi
• Social arkeologi
• Social förändring
• Evolutionism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies : A Dialogue / Andrew Gardner, Ethan E. Cochrane -- Units of Transmission in Evolutionary Archaeology and the Role of Memetics / Ethan E. Cochrane -- Action and Structure in Interpretive Archaeologies / Andrew Gardner -- "Style versus Function" 30 Years On / R. Alexander Bentley -- Intentionality Matters : Creativity and Human Agency in the Construction of the Inka State / Bill Sillar -- Interpretive Archaeologies, Violence and Evolutionary Approaches / Simon James -- Violence and Conflict : Warfare, Biology and Culture / Robert Layton -- Tribes, Peoples, Ethnicity : Archaeology and Changing Ẁe Groups' / Ulrike Sommer -- Cultural Selection, Drift and Ceramic Diversity at Bogazkoy-Hattusa / Claudia Glatz, Anne Kandler, James Steele -- Cultural and Biological Approaches to the Body in Archaeology : Can They Be Reconciled? / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- Missing Links : Cultures, Species and the Cladistic Reconstruction of Prehistory / Jamshid J. Tehrani -- The Ambiguity of Landscape : Discussing Points of Relatedness in Concepts and Methods / Sue Hamilton -- Contrasts and Conflicts in Anthropology and Archaeology : The Evolutionary/Interpretive Dichotomy in Human Behavioural Research / Heidi Colleran, Ruth Mace -- A Visit to Down House : Some Interpretive Comments on Evolutionary Archaeology / Matthew H. Johnson -- An Evolutionary Perspective on the Goals of Archaeology / Stephen Shennan.

Call Number

JFE 15-7028

ISBN

• 9781598744262 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1598744267 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781598744279 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1598744275 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781598746600 (electronic)
• 159874660X (electronic)

LCCN

• 2010052551
• 40019611965

OCLC

694509761

Title

Evolutionary and interpretive archaeologies : a discussion / Ethan E. Cochrane, Andrew Gardner (editors).

Imprint

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cochrane, Ethan E.

Gardner, Andrew, 1973-

Other Standard Identifier

40019611965

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7028