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Seasonal Dating of Burials from the Presence of Fly PupaeAbstract During the excavation of Arikara burials which were 130 to 160 years old, the author discovered the chitinous exuvia of fly pupae with many of the burials. The pupae of these scavenger flies seasonally date the burials from late March to mid-October, corresponding to the year's arrival and disappearance of these flies in South Dakota.
American Antiquity - Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 534-535 - 1967
Ceramic Style Change and Neutral Evolution: A Case Study from Neolithic EuropeFollowing 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 simulati... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 66 Số 4 - Trang 577-593 - 2001
Archaeology as AnthropologyAbstract It 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 modificat... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 28 Số 2 - Trang 217-225 - 1962
Point Typologies, Cultural Transmission, and the Spread of Bow-and-Arrow Technology in the Prehistoric Great BasinDecrease 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... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 64 Số 2 - Trang 231-242 - 1999
Style and Function: A Fundamental DichotomyOur 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 pr... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 43 Số 2 - Trang 192-202 - 1978
Stylistic Variation in Evolutionary Perspective: Inferences from Decorative Diversity and Interassemblage Distance in Illinois Woodland Ceramic AssemblagesCertain 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 mechanis... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 60 Số 1 - Trang 7-36 - 1995
Raw-Material Availability and the Organization of TechnologyEthnographic 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. info... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 59 Số 1 - Trang 21-34 - 1994
The Three Sides of a BifaceThree 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 te... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 53 Số 4 - Trang 717-734 - 1988
The Optimal Design of Hunting Weapons: Maintainability or ReliabilityDesign 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....
American Antiquity - Tập 51 Số 4 - Trang 737-747 - 1986
Hafting and Retooling: Effects on the Archaeological RecordHafting 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 ... ...
American Antiquity - Tập 47 Số 4 - Trang 798-809 - 1982
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