Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory

Todd L Vanpool

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Archaeological theory, some say, seems to have fragmented into a thousand fundamentalisms. By working on a broader set of empirical issues than ever b... Lees meer

Explorations in Behavioral Archaeology

William H Walker, James M Skibo

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Behavioral archaeology, defined as the study of people-object interactions in all times and places, emerged in the 1970s, in large part because of the... Lees meer

Complex Systems and Archaeology

Herbert Maschner

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Complexity science transects many fields ranging from physics to economics to biology. Its focus is the study of systems of interacting factors, which... Lees meer

Simulating Change

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Simulating Change explores the history, the state of the art, and the controversies in the use of computer simulation in archaeology. Thanks to contri... Lees meer

Social Theory in Archaeology

Michael Brian Schiffer

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Since the debut of the New Archaeology in the 1960s, approaches to the science of interpreting the material past have proliferated. Seeking to find co... Lees meer

The Strong Case Approach in Behavioral Archaeology

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Although all archaeologists subscribe in principle to building strong cases in support of their inferences, behavioral archaeology alone has created m... Lees meer

Power and Identity in Archaeological Theory and Practice

Eleanor Harrison-Buck

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• The contributions to this volume represent a diverse array of Mesoamerican archaeological studies that are all theo-retically rooted to larger, global... Lees meer

Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies explores past societies that are characterized by hierarchical organization where the production an... Lees meer

Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies explores past societies that are characterized by hierarchical organization where the production an... Lees meer

Tracing the Relational

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Tracing the Relational examines the recent emergence of relational ontologies in archaeological interpretation and how this perspective can help archa... Lees meer

Archaeology Beyond Dialogue

Ian Hodder

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• How do global trends affect our view of the past? World trends such as tourism, diaspora, and media globalization have led to new forms of relationshi... Lees meer

Pottery and People

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• This volume emphasizes the complex interactions between ceramic containers and people in past and present contexts. Pottery, once it appears in the ar... Lees meer

Behavioral Archaeology

Michael Brian Schiffer

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Behavioral archaeology is an emerging branch of anthropology emphasizing the study of relationships between human behavior and artifacts (material cul... Lees meer

The Archaeology of Meaningful Places

Maria Nieves Zedeno

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• In the broadest sense this book is concerned with describing and explaining how particular places contain the key elements necessary for understanding... Lees meer

Ancient Human Migrations

Peter Peregrine

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• The study of human migration is integral to the understanding of essential features of human experience. Many ancient civilizations were created and m... Lees meer

Style, Function, Transmission

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• Darwin's theory of evolutionary descent with modification rests in part on the notion that there is heritable continuity affected by transmission betw... Lees meer

Evolutionary Archaeology - Paper

Michael J O'Brien

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• The application of Darwinian theory to archaeological phenomena has always been a difficult concept. In its most modern form, this approach has only g... Lees meer

Archaeological Concepts for the Study of the Cultural Past

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• One idiosyncrasy of archaeology in North America is that it is considered a sub-field of cultural anthropology. To explore the dimensions of this situ... Lees meer

Archaeology Beyond Dialogue

Ian Hodder

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry
• How do global trends affect our view of the past? World trends such as tourism, diaspora, and media globalization have led to new forms of relationshi... Lees meer