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Quantifying diversity in archaeology

Title
Quantifying diversity in archaeology / edited by Robert D. Leonard and George T. Jones.
Publication
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Leonard, Robert D., 1954-
  • Jones, George Thomas
Description
viii, 160 pages : illustrations; 29 cm.
Summary
One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through history. Recognising that diversity exists is not, however, to explain it nor to measure it effectively. This book examines what we mean by diversity.
Series Statement
New directions in archaeology
Uniform Title
New directions in archaeology
Subject
  • Archaeology > Statistical methods
  • Material culture > Research > Methodology
  • Archaeology > Methodology
  • Material culture
  • material culture (discipline)
  • Archaeology > Methodology
  • Material culture
  • Archäologie
  • Methode
  • Sachkultur
  • Vielfalt
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Archeologie
  • Wetenschappelijke technieken
  • Archéologie > Méthodologie
  • Culture matérielle
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 150-158.
Contents
Part I. The diversity concept. 1. The concept of diversity: an introduction / George T. Jones and Robert D. Leonard -- 2. The theory and mechanics of ecological diversity in archaeology / Peter T. Bobrowsky and Bruce F. Ball -- 3. Diversity, variation and selection / David Rindos. Part II Components of diversity: richness, evenness and factors influencing their assessment. 4. Sample size, significance and measures of diversity / Keith W. Kintigh -- 5. Formation processes of Broken K Pueblo: some hypotheses / Michael B. Schiffer -- 6. Structure and diversity in intrasite spatial analysis / Jan F. Simek -- 7. Measures of diversity and expedient lithic technologies / George T. Jones and Charlotte Beck and Donald K. Grayson -- 8. Sample size and relative abundance in archaeological analysis: illustrations from spiral fractures and seriation / Donald K. Grayson. Part III Assessments of archaeological diversity. 9. Diversity in hunter-gatherer cultural geography / David Hurst Thomas -- 10. The effect of urbanisation on faunal diversity: a comparison between New York City and St Augustine, Florida, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Nan A. Rothschild -- 11. Changing strategies of Anasazi lithic procurement on Black Mesa Arizona / Robert D. Leonard and F. E. Smiley and Catherine M. Cameron -- 12. Ceramic diversity, production and use / Prudence M. Rice -- 13. The use of diversity in stylistic analysis / Margaret W. Conkey. Part IV Commentary. 14. The concept of diversity in archaeological theory / George L. Cowgill -- 15. Diversity in archaeology: a group of measures in search of application? / Robert C. Dunnell.
ISBN
  • 0521350301
  • 9780521350303
LCCN
88012297
OCLC
  • ocm17841525
  • 17841525
  • SCSB-1732026
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library