Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alan P. Sullivan, Deborah Irene Olszewski.
• Editors: Sullivan, Alan P; Olszewski, Deborah Irene
• Contents: <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-v' class='sequence-1'>Contents <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-ix' class='sequence-2'>Acknowledgments <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-3' class='sequence-3'>Chapter One. Working with Archaeological Variability in the Twenty-First Century—Thinking about Materiality, Epistemology, and Ontology - Alan P. Sullivan III and Deborah I. Olszewski <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-23' class='sequence-4'>Section I. Advances in Interpreting Regional Archaeological Records <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-25' class='sequence-5'>Chapter Two. A Lithic Perspective on Ecological Dynamics in the Upper Pleistocene of Western Eurasia - C. Michael Barton and Julien Riel-Salvatore <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-53' class='sequence-6'>Chapter Three. The Significance of 'Persistent Places' in Shaping Regional Settlement History: The Case of the Mimbres Mogollon - Barbara J. Roth <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-71' class='sequence-7'>Chapter Four. Reductive Technology and the Epipaleolithic of the Middle East and North Africa - Deborah I. Olszewski <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-99' class='sequence-8'>Chapter Five. Context and Complexity on the Arid Margins of Australia: Assessing Human Responses to an Unpredictable Environment - Simon J. Holdaway, Justin I. Shiner, Patricia C. Fanning, and Matthew J. Douglass <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-125' class='sequence-9'>Chapter Six. Theoretical Implications of Artifact-Scatter Lithic Assemblage Variability for Mobility-Based Models of Technological Organization - Alan P. Sullivan III <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-151' class='sequence-10'>Section II. Venerable Sites Revisited <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-153' class='sequence-11'>Chapter Seven. Timelessness and the Legacy of Archaeological Cartography - Sissel Schroeder and Lynne Goldstein <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-175' class='sequence-12'>Chapter Eight. Sherd Cross-Joins, Ceramic Use-Wear, and Depositional History: Rethinking the Sociopolitical Aftermath of a Collapsed Bronze Age Cistern at Myrtos-Pyrgos, Crete - Emilia Oddo and Gerald Cadogan <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-191' class='sequence-13'>Chapter Nine. Estimating the Population Size of Casas Grandes: Empirical Issues and Theoretical Consequences - David R. Wilcox <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-213' class='sequence-14'>Chapter Ten. Biface Production at Tabun: Manufacture, Maintenance, and Morphological Variability - Gary O. Rollefson <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-231' class='sequence-15'>Section III. Cross-Cultural, Conceptual, and Experimental Perspectives <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-233' class='sequence-16'>Chapter Eleven. Celebrating the Dead and Recrafting Social Identity: Placing Prehistoric Mortuary Practices in Broader Social Context - Brian F. Byrd and Jeffrey Rosenthal <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-267' class='sequence-17'>Chapter Twelve. Flint from the Ancestors: Ritualized Use of Stone Tools in the Prehistoric Southwest - John C. Whittaker and Kathryn A. Kamp <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-291' class='sequence-18'>Chapter Thirteen. Form, Function, and Mental Templates in Paleolithic Archaeology - Philip G. Chase <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-307' class='sequence-19'>Chapter Fourteen. The Role of Controlled Experiments in Understanding Variation in Flake Production - Zeljko Rezek, Sam Lin, and Harold L. Dibble <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-321' class='sequence-20'>List of Contributors <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-325' class='sequence-21'>Index.
• Publisher Details: Louisville : University Press of Colorado
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (342 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Archaeology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781607324942
• Related ISBNs: 9781607324935
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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