Graphing Culture Change In North American Archaeology
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Author | : R. Lee Lyman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0198871155 |
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Documentation, analysis, and explanation of culture change have long been goals of archaeology. Scientific graphs facilitate the visual thinking that allow archaeologists to determine the relationship between variables, and, if well designed, comprehend the processes implied by the relationship. Different graph types suggest different ontologies and theories of change, and particular techniques of parsing temporally continuous morphological variation of artefacts into types influence graph form. North American archaeologists have grappled with finding a graph that effectively and efficiently displays culture change over time. Line graphs, bar graphs, and numerous one-off graph types were used between 1910 and 1950, after which spindle graphs displaying temporal frequency distributions of specimens within each of multiple artefact types emerged as the most readily deciphered diagram. The variety of graph types used over the twentieth century indicate archaeologists often mixed elements of both Darwinian variational evolutionary change and Midas-touch like transformational change. Today, there is minimal discussion of graph theory or graph grammar in introductory archaeology textbooks or advanced texts, and elements of the two theories of evolution are still mixed. Culture has changed, and archaeology provides unique access to the totality of humankind's cultural past. It is therefore crucial that graph theory, construction, and decipherment are revived in archaeological discussion.
Author | : Timothy R. Pauketat |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2004-12-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780631231837 |
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This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archaeology for all those interested in the history and culture of North American natives. Organized around central topics and debates within the discipline. Illustrated with case studies based on the lives of real people, to emphasize human agency, cultural practice, the body, issues of inequality, and the politics of archaeological practice. Highlights current understandings of cultural and historical processes in North America and situates these understandings within a global perspective.
Author | : Sarah Ward Neusius |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : R. Lee Lyman |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803280521 |
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Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes in artifacts, sites, and peoples over time. In highlighting the underpinning ontology and epistemology of artifact-based chronometers?cultural transmission and how to measure it archaeologically?this volume covers issues such as why archaeologists used the cultural evolutionism of L. H. Morgan, E. B. Tylor, L. A. White, and others instead of biological evolutionism; why artifact classification played a critical role in the adoption of stratigraphic excavation; how the direct historical approach accomplished three analytical tasks at once; why cultural traits were important analytical units; why paleontological and archaeological methods sometimes mirror one another; how artifact classification influences chronometric method; and how graphs illustrate change in artifacts over time. An understanding of the history of artifact-based chronometers enables us to understand how we know what we think we know about the past, ensures against modern misapplication of the methods, and sheds light on the reasoning behind archaeologists' actions during the first half of the twentieth century.
Author | : James Bennett Griffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stephen Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812282382 |
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"A cheerful and delightful excursion into the realms of fraud, hucksterism, wretched excess, and wishful thinking. . . . From Indiana Jones to Lost Atlantis, from mysticism to Mu, Williams reviews the colorful characters and misguided theories which have excited the public, and exasperated mainstream archaeologists."--Michael Crichton
Author | : Dean R. Snow |
Publisher | : New York : The Viking Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Surveys the lifeways and cultural achievements and traditions of the prehistoric peoples of the great regions of North America, as we know of them from archaeological finds and research.
Author | : Edward B. Jelks |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1988-05-06 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
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Invaluable both for reference and collection development (with a 150-page bibliography), this guide to mainly prehistoric sites, cultures, and artifacts in the United States and Canada features some 1800 signed entries by 151 expert contributors that highlight the information upon which present North American prehistory is based. A scholarly achievement. Library Journal This dictionary of more than 1800 entries represents a collaboration of 159 archaeologists, each an authority on a particular region. The result is a source of basic information on the major prehistorical cultures, archaeological sites, and types of artifacts found in North America. The sites were selected from the more than one-half million prehistoric archaeological sites recorded in North America because they are the principal ones upon which the major chronologies, classifications, and interpretations of the continent's prehistory are based. The reference has entries for most major types of artifacts and details the important cultures, including their phases and subdivisions. At the end of each entry is a list of sources which refers primarily to published works, but which also cites unpublished documents on file at universities, museums, and government agencies when these represent the only available source of information.
Author | : Cyrus Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Indians of Central America |
ISBN | : |
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