Readings in American archaeological theory
Subtitle: selections from American antiquity, 1962-2011
By: compiled by Christine VanPool and Todd VanPool
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: SAA Press, Society for American Archaeology
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780932839459
Subjects: Philosophy; Antiquities; Indians of North America; Archaeology
Other titles: American antiquity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Archaeology as Anthropology / Lewis Binford; title: Philosophical Discussions; title: The Nature of Archaeological Explanation / John M. Fritz and Fred T. Plog; title: Confirmation and Explanation in Archaeology / Marrilee H. Salmon; title: Questions of Evidence, Legitimacy, and the (Dis)Unity of Science / Alison Wylie; title: Inference to the Best Explanation : A Common and Effective From of Archaeological Reasoning / Lars Fogelin; title: Processualism; title: Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking : The Use of Analogy in Archaeological Reasoning / Lewis Binford; title: Archaeological Context and Systemic Context / Michael B. Schiffer; title: Political Hierarchies and Organizational Strategies in the Puelboan Southwest / Gary M. Feinman, Kent G. Lightfoot, and Steadman Upham; title: Evolutionary Archaeology; title: Style and Function : A Fundamental Dichotomy / Robert C. Dunnell; title: Some Relationships between Behavioral and Evolutionary Archaeologies / Michael B. Schiffer; title: Basic Incompatibilities between Evolutionary and Behavioral Archaeologies / Michael J. O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman, and Robert D. Leonard; title: Interpretive Archaeology; title: Some Opinions about Recovering Mind / Mark P. Leone; title: Interpretive Archaeology and Its Role / Ian Hodder; title: The Scientific Nature of Postprocesualism / Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool; title: Current Trends; title: Setting Theoretical Egos Aside : Issues and Theory in North American Archaeology / Michelle Hegmon; title: Rifts in the Theoretical Landscape of Archaeology in the United States : A Comment on Hegmon and Watkins / Madonna L. Moss; title: Change and Continuity, Practice and Memory : Native American Persistence in Colonial New England / Stephen W. Silliman; title: The Cultural Transmission of Great Basin Projectile-Point Technology : An Experimental Simulation Inference to the Best Explanation / Alex Mesoudi and Michael J. O'Brien; title: Kinship Theory in Archaeology : From Critiques to the Study of   Transformation / Bradley E. Ensor.