Formation Theory In Archaeology
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Author | : Gavin Lucas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107010268 |
Download Understanding the Archaeological Record Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views. Gavin Lucas argues that archaeological theory has become both too fragmented and disconnected from the particular nature of archaeological evidence. The book examines three ways of understanding the archaeological record - as historical sources, through formation theory, and as material culture - then reveals ways to connect these three domains through a reconsideration of archaeological entities and archaeological practice. Ultimately, Lucas calls for a rethinking of the nature of the archaeological record and the kind of history and narratives written from it.
Author | : Michael Shott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : 9780932839305 |
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Author | : Michael B. Schiffer |
Publisher | : Me-Int |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Synthesizes the most important principles of cultural and environmental formation processes for both students and practicing archaeologists.
Author | : Deborah L. Nichols |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2012-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199996342 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology provides a current and comprehensive guide to the recent and on-going archaeology of Mesoamerica. Though the emphasis is on prehispanic societies, this Handbook also includes coverage of important new work by archaeologists on the Colonial and Republican periods. Unique among recent works, the text brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology. The first section of the Handbook provides an overview of recent history and trends of Mesoamerica and articles on national archaeology programs and practice in Central America and Mexico written by archaeologists from these countries. These are followed by regional syntheses organized by time period, beginning with early hunter-gatherer societies and the first farmers of Mesoamerica and concluding with a discussion of the Spanish Conquest and frontiers and peripheries of Mesoamerica. Topical and comparative articles comprise the remainder of Handbook. They cover important dimensions of prehispanic societies--from ecology, economy, and environment to social and political relations--and discuss significant methodological contributions, such as geo-chemical source studies, as well as new theories and diverse theoretical perspectives. The Handbook concludes with a section on the archaeology of the Spanish conquest and the Colonial and Republican periods to connect the prehispanic, proto-historic, and historic periods. This volume will be a must-read for students and professional archaeologists, as well as other scholars including historians, art historians, geographers, and ethnographers with an interest in Mesoamerica.
Author | : Andrew Gardner |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : |
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ISBN | : 9780199567942 |
Download Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Todd L. VanPool |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Archaeological theory, some say, seems to have fragmented into a thousand fundamentalisms. By working on a broader set of empirical issues than ever before, archaeologists are indeed applying and refining a variety of perspectives. Yet the editors of this volume make a case that it is appropriate for archaeologists to use a logical variety of theoretical structures to answer different kinds of questions, combining approaches as necessary. In that spirit of plurality, contributors to this volume identify an important theoretical or methodological problem and present an argument regarding its solution. They also provide a critical evaluation of the current state of archaeological method and theory, illustrating that such recurrent issues as the role of agency and the importance of social considerations in the formation of archaeological research dominate current theoretical development. By presenting both the range of important questions and a variety of answers, this volume contributes to the 'essential tension' that will further the growth of archaeological theory.
Author | : Michael B. Schiffer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134903650 |
Download Behavioral Archaeology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Behavioral archaeology offers a way of examining the past by highlighting human engagement with the material culture of the time. 'Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice' offers a broad overview of the methods and theories used in this approach to archaeology. Opening with an overview of the history and key concepts, the book goes on to systematically cover both principles and practice: the philosophy of science and the scientific method; artifacts and human behavior; archaeological inference; formation processes of the archaeological record; technological change; behavioral change; and ritual and religion. Detailed case studies show the relevance of behavioral method and theory to the wider field of archaeological studies. The book will be invaluable to students of archaeology and anthropology.
Author | : Thomas C Patterson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2015-08-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317343166 |
Download Theory and Practice of Archaeology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods. Intended for the Introductory Archaeology course with the goal of teaching students how to think like archaeologists, this workbook includes activities that challenge students to interpret and explain field findings and help them to see the link between theory and practice.
Author | : Silvia Polla |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110377136 |
Download Computational Approaches to the Study of Movement in Archaeology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book contains a collection of papers discussing questions related to space and movement in the framework of computational archaeology, landscape archaeology, historical geography and archaeological theory. The contributions, written by recognized experts in the field, show how the study of settlements pattern and movement has been dramatically transformed by the use of technology like Geographic Information System (GIS). The papers focus on the ways to approach past movement using GIS in archaeological landscape studies: theoretical, technical and interpretative issues are addressed and explored. They provide the state of the art in theory and methodology and show, by using case studies, the potential of the developed approaches for the understanding of factors and effects of landscape formation and transformation in the long term.
Author | : David L. Clarke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1090 |
Release | : 2014-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317606183 |
Download Models in Archaeology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their fields of study. The twenty-six original contributions represent the carefully selected work of progressive archaeologists around the world, covering the use of models on archaeological material of all kinds and from all periods from Palaeolithic to Medieval. Their common theme is archaeological generalisation by means of explicit model building, testing, modification and reapplication. The contributors seek to show that it is the use of certain models in particular ways that defines archaeology as the practice of one discipline, with a set of general tenets that are as applicable in Peru as in Persia, Australia as Alaska, Sweden as Scotland, on material from the second millennium B.C. to the second millennium A.D. They assert that careful model formulation within archaeology and the cautious exchange and testing of models within and beyond the discipline provides the only route to the formation of the common, internationally valid body of theory which defines a vigorous and coherent discipline and distinguishes it from being a collection of merely regionally applicable special cases.