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Posing questions for a scientific archaeology / edited by Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo, and Sarah L. Sterling.
Penn Museum Library CC72.4 .P67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Scientific archaeology for the Third Millennium 1529-4439
- Scientific archaeology for the Third Millennium, 1529-4439
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social archaeology--Philosophy.
- Social archaeology.
- Ethnoarchaeology--Philosophy.
- Ethnoarchaeology.
- Social archaeology--Methodology.
- Ethnoarchaeology--Methodology.
- Social evolution.
- Methodology.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.
- Summary:
- Focuses on the interplay between theory, methods, and the generation of data from the archaeological record in pursuit of scientific explanations for historical change.
- Contents:
- 1 Posing Questions for a Scientific Archaeology / Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo, Sarah L. Sterling 1
- 2 Building Components of Evolutionary Explanation: A Study of Wedge Tools from Northern South America / Kimberly D. Kornbacher 23
- 3 The Engineering and Evolution of Hawaiian Fishhooks / Michael T. Pfeffer 73
- 4 Building the Framework for an Evolutionary Explanation of Projectile Point Variation: An Example from the Central Mississippi River Valley / Kris H. Wilhelmsen 97
- 5 Social Complexity in Ancient Egypt: Functional Differentiation as Reflected in the Distribution of Standardized Ceramics / Sarah L. Sterling 145
- 6 Community Structures among Late Mississippian Populations of the Central Mississippi River Valley / Carl P. Lipo 175
- 7 Dietary Variation and Village Settlement in the Ohio Valley / Diana M. Greenlee 217
- 8 Resource Intensification and Late Holocene Human Impacts on Pacific Coast Bird Populations: Evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound Avifauna / Jack M. Broughton 251
- 9 Evolutionary Bet-Hedging and the Hopewell Cultural Climax / Mark E. Madsen 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0897897536
- OCLC:
- 43811207
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