Archaeological Hammers and Theories

✍ Scribed by James A. Moore, Arthur S. Keene

• Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Academic Press
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Series: Studies in archaeology
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Contributors, Pages xi-xii
Preface, Pages xiii-xv
Acknowledgments, Page xvii
1 - Archaeology and the Law of the Hammer, Pages 3-13, JAMES A. MOORE, ARTHUR S. KEENE
INTRODUCTION TO THE PRODUCTS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD, Pages 15-17
2 - The Archaeological Record as Preserved Death Assemblage, Pages 19-36, WARREN R. DEBOER
3 - We Can't See the Forest for the Trees: Sampling and the Shapes of Archaeological Distributions, Pages 37-85, H. MARTIN WOBST
4 - Twigs, Branches, Trees, and Forests: Problems of Scale in Lithic Analysis, Pages 87-106, JOHN R. CROSS
5 - Pots as Tools, Pages 107-134, DAVID P. BRAUN
INTRODUCTION TO THE PRECEDENTS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD, Pages 135-136
6 - Biology, Behavior, and Borrowing: A Critical Examination of Optimal Foraging Theory in Archaeology, Pages 137-155, ARTHUR S. KEENE
7 - Optimization Models in Context, Pages 157-172, MICHAEL JOCHIM
8 - The Trouble with Know-It-Alls: Information as a Social and Ecological Resource, Pages 173-191, JAMES A. MOORE
9 - Information Exchange and the Spatial Configurations of Egalitarian Societies, Pages 193-219, DOLORES ROOT
10 - The Ecological Perspective in Highland Mesoamerican Archaeology, Pages 221-231, RICHARD E. BLANTON
11 - Expanding the Scope of Settlement Analysis, Pages 233-275, ROBERT W. PAYNTER
12 - The Social Representation of Space: Dimensioning the Cosmological and the Quotidian, Pages 277-298, SUSAN M. KUS
13 - The Poverty of Philosophy in Archaeology, Pages 299-304, DEAN J. SAITTA
Index, Pages 305-309
STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY, Pages ibc1-ibc3