Debating archaeology
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Debating archaeology
Left Coast Press, c2009
Updated pbk. ed
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Includes bibliographic references and index
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Description
In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set of collected papers (also Working at Archaeology and An Archaeological Perspective). This ongoing collection of self-edited papers, together with the extensive and very candid interstitial commentaries, provides an invaluable record of the development of "The New Archaeology" and a challenging view into the mind of the man who is certainly the most creative archaeological theorist of our time. A new (2009) foreword allows further reflections on his work.
Table of Contents
- I: Introduction
- 1: "Culture" and Social Roles in Archaeology
- 2: The New Archaeology, Then and Now
- II: Much Ado about Nothing
- 3: Science to Seance, or Processual to "Post-Processual" Archaeology
- 4: In Pursuit of the Future
- 5: Data, Relativism, and Archaeological Science
- 6: Review of Hodder, Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology
- III: Empiricism and Other Problems in Contemporary Archaeology
- 7: Coping with Debate Tactics
- 8: Reply to "More on the Mousterian: Flaked Bone from Cueva Morin," by L. Freeman
- 9: "Brand X" versus the Recommended Product
- 10: "Righteous Rocks" and Richard Gould: Some Observations on Misguided "Debate"
- 11: Richard Gould Revisited, or Bringing Back the "Bacon"
- 12: An Alyawara Day: The Stone Quarry
- 13: An Alyawara Day: Flour, Spinifex Gum, and Shifting Perspectives
- 14: An Alyawara Day
- 15: Butchering, Sharing, and the Archaeological Record
- 16: Styles of Style
- 17: Researching Ambiguity: Frames of Reference and Site Structure
- IV: Models and Accommodating Arguments versus Pattern Recognition: What Drives Research Best?
- 18: Multidimensional Analysis of Sheep and Goats: Baa-ck and Forth
- 19: The Hunting Hypothesis, Archaeological Methods, and the Past
- 20: Letter to H. T. Bunn
- 21: Bones of Contention: A Reply to Glynn Isaac
- 22: Human Ancestors
- 23: Fact and Fiction about the Zinjanthropus Floor: Data, Arguments, and Interpretations
- 24: Hyena Scavenging Behavior and Its Implications for the Interpretation of Faunal Assemblages from FLK 22 (the Zinj Floor) at Olduvai Gorge
- 25: Were There Elephant Hunters at Torralba?
- 26: Searching for Camps and Missing the Evidence? Another Look at the Lower Paleolithic
- 27: Technology of Early Man: An Organizational Approach to the Oldowan
- 28: Isolating the Transition to Cultural Adaptations: An Organizational Approach
- V: Conclusions
- 29: Coping with Culture
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