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Readings in American archaeological theory : selections from American antiquity, 1962-2002 / compiled by Garth Bawden.
- Title
- Readings in American archaeological theory : selections from American antiquity, 1962-2002 / compiled by Garth Bawden.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Society for American Archaeology, 2003.
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- Description
- vii, 291 p. :b ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the history and content of the theoretical debates that characterize current American archaeology using articles that have been published in the pages of American Antiquity, the flagship journal of the Society for American Archaeology" -- page v.
- Uniform Title
- American antiquity.
- Subject
- Note
- "The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the history and content of the theoretical debates that characterize current American archaeology using articles that have been published in the pages of American antiquity, the flagship journal of the Society for American Archaeology"--P. v.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Archaeology as anthropology / Lewis R. Binford -- Archaeological systematics and the study of cultural process / Lewis R. Binford -- Smudge pits and hide smoking : the use of analogy in archaeological reasoning / Lewis R. Binford -- The nature of archaeological explanation / John M. Fritz and Fred T. Plog -- Confirmation and explanation in archaeology / Merrilee H. Salmon -- What can systems theory do for archaeology? / Merrilee H. Salmon -- "Brand X" versus the recommended product / Lewis R. Binford -- The Empiricist strikes back : reply to Binford / Richard A. Gould -- Paradigms and the nature of change in American archaeology / David J. Meltzer -- Interpretive archaeology and its role / Ian Hodder -- Some opinions about recovering mind / Mark P. Leone -- The interplay of evidential constraints and political interests : ... research on gender / Alison Wylie -- Ozymandias, King of Kings : postprocessual radical archaeology as critique / Richard A. Watson -- Style and function / Robert C. Dunnell -- The role of adaptation in archaeological explanation / Michael J. O'Brien and Thomas D. Holland -- Point typologies, cultural transmission and the spread of bow-and-arrow technology in the prehistoric Great Basin / Robert J. Bettinger and Jelmer Eerkens -- Evidence and metaphor in evolutionary archaeology / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Archaeological context and systemic context / Michael B. Schiffer -- Some relationships between behavioral and evolutionary archaeologies / Michael B. Schiffer -- Basic incompatibilities between evolutionary and behavioral archaeology / Michael J. O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman and Robert D. Leonard -- The scientific nature of postprocessualism / Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool.
- ISBN
- 0932839258
- LCCN
- ^^2003100471
- OCLC
- 54826676
- SCSB-10361337
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library