A Study of Archeology, By Walter W. Taylor
Author | : Walter Willard Taylor |
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Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Walter Willard Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Fritz Overbeck |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Author | : Walter Willard Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Allan Maca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"Taylor made enemies and had difficulty implementing his research agenda for reasons the contributors to this volume explore in detail, but the fact is that the shortcomings of early twentieth century approaches continue to haunt archaeology. Many perspectives that are seen as innovative today...owe an intellectual debt to Taylor."---Linda Cordell, From The Foreword --
Author | : Allan Maca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"Taylor made enemies and had difficulty implementing his research agenda for reasons the contributors to this volume explore in detail, but the fact is that the shortcomings of early twentieth century approaches continue to haunt archaeology. Many perspectives that are seen as innovative today...owe an intellectual debt to Taylor."---Linda Cordell, From The Foreword --
Author | : Timothy R. Pauketat |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0759112509 |
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of 'chiefdoms' left behind by the Mississippian culture of the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehistory to reexamine the actual evidence that archaeology has made available, and to do so with an open mind.
Author | : Bj¿rnar Olsen |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2012-11-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520274164 |
“This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how every step in the discipline’s scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical artifacts, ranging from the camel-hair brush to profile drawings to virtual reality imaging. At the same time, the reader is taken on a phenomenological journey into various pasts, immersed in the lives of peoples from other times, compelled to engage their senses with the sights, smells, and noises of the publics and places whose remains they study. This is a refreshingly original and provocative look at the meaning of the material culture that lies at the foundation of the archaeological discipline.”—Michael Brian Schiffer, author of The Material Life of Human Beings “This volume is a radical call to fundamentally rethink the ontology, profession, and practice of archaeology. The authors present a closely reasoned, epistemologically sound argument for why archaeology should be considered the discipline of things, rather than its more commonplace definition as the study of the human past through material traces. All scholars and students of archaeology will need to read and contemplate this thought-provoking book.”—Wendy Ashmore, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside "A broad, illuminating, and well-researched overview of theoretical problems pertaining to archaeology. The authors make a calm defense of the role of objects against tedious claims of 'fetishism.'"—Graham Harman, author of The Quadruple Object
Author | : Charles Perreault |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022663101X |
Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a focus on microevolution and an incredibly patchy fossil record. But in the 1970s, the field took a radical turn, as paleobiologists began to investigate processes that could only be recognized in the fossil record across larger scales of time and space. That turn led to a new wave of macroevolutionary investigations, novel insights into the evolution of species, and a growing prominence for the field among the biological sciences. In The Quality of the Archaeological Record, Charles Perreault shows that archaeology not only faces a parallel problem, but may also find a model in the rise of paleobiology for a shift in the science and theory of the field. To get there, he proposes a more macroscale approach to making sense of the archaeological record, an approach that reveals patterns and processes not visible within the span of a human lifetime, but rather across an observation window thousands of years long and thousands of kilometers wide. Just as with the fossil record, the archaeological record has the scope necessary to detect macroscale cultural phenomena because it can provide samples that are large enough to cancel out the noise generated by micro-scale events. By recalibrating their research to the quality of the archaeological record and developing a true macroarchaeology program, Perreault argues, archaeologists can finally unleash the full contributive value of their discipline.
Author | : Barbara Mills |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0190697466 |
The American Southwest is one of the most important archaeological regions in the world, with many of the best-studied examples of hunter-gatherer and village-based societies. Research has been carried out in the region for well over a century, and during this time the Southwest has repeatedly stood at the forefront of the development of new archaeological methods and theories. Moreover, research in the Southwest has long been a key site of collaboration between archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, linguists, biological anthropologists, and indigenous intellectuals. This volume marks the most ambitious effort to take stock of the empirical evidence, theoretical orientations, and historical reconstructions of the American Southwest. Over seventy top scholars have joined forces to produce an unparalleled survey of state of archaeological knowledge in the region. Themed chapters on particular methods and theories are accompanied by comprehensive overviews of the culture histories of particular archaeological sequences, from the initial Paleoindian occupation, to the rise of a major ritual center in Chaco Canyon, to the onset of the Spanish and American imperial projects. The result is an essential volume for any researcher working in the region as well as any archaeologist looking to take the pulse of contemporary trends in this key research tradition.
Author | : Tracy B. Henley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2019-07-24 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0429950039 |
The remains that archaeologists uncover reveal ancient minds at work as much as ancient hands, and for decades many have sought a better way of understanding those minds. This understanding is at the forefront of cognitive archaeology, a discipline that believes that a greater application of psychological theory to archaeology will further our understanding of the evolution of the human mind. Bringing together a diverse range of experts including archaeologists, psychologists, anthropologists, biologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, historians, and philosophers, in one comprehensive volume, this accessible and illuminating book is an important resource for students and researchers exploring how the application of cognitive archaeology can significantly and meaningfully deepen their knowledge of early and ancient humans. This seminal volume opens the field of cognitive archaeology to scholars across the behavioral sciences.