Research Catalog

Title

Archaeological variability and interpretation in global perspective / edited by Alan P. Sullivan III and Deborah I. Olszewski.

Publication

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Sullivan, Alan P.
• Olszewski, Deborah

Description

vii, 332 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Subject

• Archaeology > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 reponses 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.

Call Number

JFE 17-1127

ISBN

• 9781607324935
• 1607324938
• 9781607324942 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016000562

OCLC

YBP 2016000562

Title

Archaeological variability and interpretation in global perspective / edited by Alan P. Sullivan III and Deborah I. Olszewski.

Publisher

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sullivan, Alan P., editor.

Olszewski, Deborah, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-1127