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Archaeology as Anthropology
American Antiquity - Tập 28 Số 2 - Trang 217-225 - 1962
Lewis R. Binford
AbstractIt is argued that archaeology has made few contributions to the general field of anthropology with regard to explaining cultural similarities and differences. One major factor contributing to this lack is asserted to be the tendency to treat artifacts as equal and comparable traits which can be explained within a single model of culture change and modification. It is suggested that “materi... hiện toàn bộ
Ceramic Style Change and Neutral Evolution: A Case Study from Neolithic Europe
American Antiquity - Tập 66 Số 4 - Trang 577-593 - 2001
S Shennan, John Wilkinson
Following on the work of Dunnell, the evolutionary archaeology school has made a sharp distinction between functional and stylistic variation in archaeological artifacts. Variation is defined as functional if it is affected by selection processes and as stylistic if it is a result of processes of random drift. The argument has been further developed by Neiman (1995), who showed by simulation that ... hiện toàn bộ
Style and Function: A Fundamental Dichotomy
American Antiquity - Tập 43 Số 2 - Trang 192-202 - 1978
Robert C. Dunnell
Our understanding of the archaeological record has been developed under the culture history paradigm. Its fundamental structure is shown to be stylistic; this characteristic, coupled with historical factors, is seen as the major reason why evolutionary processes have not been extensively employed in explaining cultural change. Consideration of an evolutionary approach suggests that such processes ... hiện toàn bộ
Point Typologies, Cultural Transmission, and the Spread of Bow-and-Arrow Technology in the Prehistoric Great Basin
American Antiquity - Tập 64 Số 2 - Trang 231-242 - 1999
Robert L. Bettinger, Jelmer W. Eerkens
Decrease in projectile point size around 1350 B.P. is commonly regarded as marking the replacement of the atlatl by the bow and arrow across the Great Basin. The point typology most widely employed in the Great Basin before about 1980 (the Berkeley typology) uses weight to distinguish larger dart points from smaller, but similarly shaped, arrow points. The typology commonly used today (the Monitor... hiện toàn bộ
Stylistic Variation in Evolutionary Perspective: Inferences from Decorative Diversity and Interassemblage Distance in Illinois Woodland Ceramic Assemblages
American Antiquity - Tập 60 Số 1 - Trang 7-36 - 1995
Fraser Neiman
Certain aspects of what archaeologists have traditionally called stylistic variation can be understood as the result of the introduction of selectively neutral variation into social-learning populations and the sampling error in the cultural transmission of that variation (drift). Simple mathematical models allow the deduction of expectations for the dynamics of these evolutionary mechanisms as mo... hiện toàn bộ
Raw-Material Availability and the Organization of Technology
American Antiquity - Tập 59 Số 1 - Trang 21-34 - 1994
William Andrefsky
Ethnographic examples of stone-tool makers in Australia and archaeological examples from three different areas in the western United States indicate that the availability of lithic raw materials is an important variable conditioning stone-tool production technology. Attributes of availability such as abundance and quality of lithic raw materials condition the production of formal- vs. informal-too... hiện toàn bộ
The Three Sides of a Biface
American Antiquity - Tập 53 Số 4 - Trang 717-734 - 1988
Robert L. Kelly
Three different sorts of bifacial tools-by-products of the shaping process, cores, and long use-life tools-are used to consider the role mobility plays in producing variability in hunter-gatherer lithic technologies. The relations among tool roles, raw-material distribution, and mobility as well as the archaeological consequences of the different roles are key factors. An examination of temporal t... hiện toàn bộ
The Optimal Design of Hunting Weapons: Maintainability or Reliability
American Antiquity - Tập 51 Số 4 - Trang 737-747 - 1986
Peter Bleed
Design engineers share archaeologists' interest in material culture, but unlike archaeologists, engineers have developed concepts for determining the suitability of technical systems to perform specific tasks. Given the difficulty archaeologists face in developing theories of material culture, I suggest that guiding principles of engineering design offer potentially useful insights.In this article... hiện toàn bộ
Hafting and Retooling: Effects on the Archaeological Record
American Antiquity - Tập 47 Số 4 - Trang 798-809 - 1982
Lawrence H. Keeley
Hafting has long been recognized by archaeologists as a process affecting stone tools. However, the effects of this process on the archaeological record have been virtually ignored. Hafting affects the final typological form of tools because hafted tools are usually more extensively and intensively worked than their unhafted counterparts. Ethnoarchaeological and some recent archaeological evidence... hiện toàn bộ
On Tool-Class Use Lives and the Formation of Archaeological Assemblages
American Antiquity - Tập 54 Số 1 - Trang 9-30 - 1989
Michael Shott
The importance of tool-class use lives in the formation of archaeological assemblages is established both in theory and empirically, and accurate inference from the material record requires that use lives be measured or estimated with confidence. Unfortunately, no method of measuring use lives directly from archaeological remains has been developed. However, this important quantity may be related ... hiện toàn bộ
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