Amber Johnson

Processual Archaeology (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Analytical Strategies, Frames of Reference, and Culture Process

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Processual archaeologists seek to explain variability in the static archaeological record we observe in the present as a necessary first step toward learning how to learn about the operation of cultural dynamics in the past. The approach is a diverse and productive one that focuses on developing learning strategies. Researchers pursuing processual archaeology have already discovered a great deal about the archaeological record and about past dynamics, and there is a huge potential for building on the foundation laid thus far.

The contributors to this volume provide clearly written research articles that are easily accessible to upper-level undergraduates and professional archaeologists. Although the papers do not focus on a single region, time period, or domain of observation (e.g. settlement patterns or lithics or site structure), they are integrated by shared goals for archaeology. This book clearly demonstrates that processual archaeology, far from having been replaced by post-processual archaeology, is becoming more and more powerful as our analytic sophistication and knowledge of the archaeological record grow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313027796
• Artikelnr.: 37809474

Autorenporträt

AMBER L. JOHNSON received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Methodist University in 1997 and is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Truman State University. Her research interests are in learning to explain variability in the pace and pattern of long term culture change processes through comparison of archaeological sequences on a global scale.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: Searching for Home in the Modern Landscape of Archaeology by
Robert L. Kelly The Goals of Processual Archaeology by Amber L. Johnson
Middle Paleolithic Assemblage Formation at Riparo Mochi by Steven L. Kuhn
Taphonomy and Site Structure of a Late Paleolithic Open-air Site by James
G. Enloe Modes of Ceramic Production and Distribution: Some Observations
from Philippine Ethnoarchaeology by William A. Longacre Mobility,
Sendentism, and Intensification: Organizational Responses to Environmental
and Social Change among the San of Southern Africa by Robert K. Hitchcock
Poison Hunting Stategies and the Organization of Technology in the
Circumpolar Region by Alan J. Osborn The Functional Hypothesis Revisited:
An Evaluation of Cumulative Graphs Using the Mousterian in the Eastern
Sahara of Egypt and in Southwest France by Fred Wendorf and Romauld Schild
Population Ecology, Predator-Prey Dynamics, and Paleolithic Society by Mary
C. Stiner On Niche Breadth, System Stability and the Importance of a Phrase
by Amber L. Johnson Niche--A Productive Guide for Use in the Analysis of
Cultural Complexity by Lewis R. Binford Solving Meno's Puzzle, Defeating
Merlin's Subterfuge: Bodies of Reference Knowledge and Archaeological
Inference by LuAnn Wandsnider