Posing questions for a scientific archaeology
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Posing questions for a scientific archaeology
(Scientific archaeology for the Third Millennium / John Edward Terrell, editor)
Bergin & Garvey, 2001
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although many believe that archaeological knowledge consists simply of empirical findings, this notion is false; data are generated with the guidance of theory, or some sense-making system acting in its place whether researchers recognize this or not. Failure to understand the relationship between theory and the empirical world has led to the many debates and frustrations of contemporary archaeology.
Despite years of trying, the atheoretical, empiricist foundations of archaeology have left us little but a history of storytelling and unsatisfying generalizations about historical change and human diversity. The present work offers promising directions for building theoretically defensible results by providing well-designed case studies that can be used as guides or exemplars. Evolutionary theory, in at least some form, is the foundation for a scientific archaeology that will yield scientific explanations for historical change.
Table of Contents
Preface Posing Questions for a Scientific Archaeology by Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo, and Sarah L. Sterling Building Components of Evolutionary Explanation: A Study of Wedge Tools from Northern South America by Kimberly D. Kornbacher The Engineering and Evolution of Hawaiian Fishhooks by Michael T. Pfeffer Building the Framework for An Evolutionary Explanation of Projectile Point Variation: An Example from the Central Mississippi River Valley by Kris H. Wilhelmsen Social Complexity in Ancient Egypt: Functional Differentiation Reflected in the Distribution of Standardized Ceramics by Sarah L. Sterling Community Structures in Late Mississippian Populations of the Central Mississippi Valley by Carl P. Lipo Dietary Variation and Village Settlement in the Ohio Valley by Diana M. Greenlee Resource Intensification and Late Holocene Human Impacts on Pacific Coast Bird Populations: Evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound Avifauna by Jack Broughton Evolutionary Bet-Hedging and the Hopewell Cultural Climax by Mark E. Madsen Index
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