An Archaeology of Landscapes: Perspectives and
... Kowalewski, 1990; Struever, 1971, to name only a few). Various nonsite, offsite, and archaeological landscape approaches (e.g., Cherry et al., 1991; Dunnell, 1992; Ebert, 1992; Rossignol and Wandsnider, 1992; Yamin and Metheny, 1996; see also the later discussions) arose to consider the distribution ...
... Kowalewski, 1990; Struever, 1971, to name only a few). Various nonsite, offsite, and archaeological landscape approaches (e.g., Cherry et al., 1991; Dunnell, 1992; Ebert, 1992; Rossignol and Wandsnider, 1992; Yamin and Metheny, 1996; see also the later discussions) arose to consider the distribution ...
Number 3, May - Society for American Archaeology
... mind but not using archaeological methods (archaeologists can do their field investigations quite well enough for themselves). An interesting question is whether any younger researchers will arise who are interdisciplinary geoarchaeologists themselves, with little need in many instances to call on t ...
... mind but not using archaeological methods (archaeologists can do their field investigations quite well enough for themselves). An interesting question is whether any younger researchers will arise who are interdisciplinary geoarchaeologists themselves, with little need in many instances to call on t ...
Session Abstracts - Society for American Archaeology
... (SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES) The term "ochre" is one of the most poorly defined categories of material culture. Broadly speaking, archaeologists tend to identify any iron-containing rock, mineral, or soil capable of producing a colored streak as ochre. This is at best an in ...
... (SPONSORED BY THE SOCIETY FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES) The term "ochre" is one of the most poorly defined categories of material culture. Broadly speaking, archaeologists tend to identify any iron-containing rock, mineral, or soil capable of producing a colored streak as ochre. This is at best an in ...
THE BORDES-BINFORD DEBATE: TRANSATLANTIC
... specialists and non-specialists alike; one could cast the story in so many ways. There are nationalistic overtones in the upstart American versus the courtly Frenchman, a May-December (maybe November) element with a Young Turk battling a tested old(er) warrior, and a sprinkling of the inevitability ...
... specialists and non-specialists alike; one could cast the story in so many ways. There are nationalistic overtones in the upstart American versus the courtly Frenchman, a May-December (maybe November) element with a Young Turk battling a tested old(er) warrior, and a sprinkling of the inevitability ...
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND
... knowledge communication, we are bookworms of a different sort, eating knowledge without knowing in advance just exactly how it will taste, where it will be located, or how deeply it will satisfy. As we eat our way through the readings in this course, certain pages and volumes will more deeply satisf ...
... knowledge communication, we are bookworms of a different sort, eating knowledge without knowing in advance just exactly how it will taste, where it will be located, or how deeply it will satisfy. As we eat our way through the readings in this course, certain pages and volumes will more deeply satisf ...
REFERENCES CITED
... Interagency Archaeological Services Division, National Park Service, Atlanta. Anderson, P.C. 1980 A Testimony of Prehistoric Tasks: Diagnostic Residues on Stone Tool Working Edges. World Archaeology 12(2):181-194. Anderson-Gerfaud, P. 1981 Contribution Méthodologique à l'Analyse des Microtraces d'Ut ...
... Interagency Archaeological Services Division, National Park Service, Atlanta. Anderson, P.C. 1980 A Testimony of Prehistoric Tasks: Diagnostic Residues on Stone Tool Working Edges. World Archaeology 12(2):181-194. Anderson-Gerfaud, P. 1981 Contribution Méthodologique à l'Analyse des Microtraces d'Ut ...
Opening Archaeology Repatriation`s Impact on Contemporary
... Yohe 2003; Thomas and Kelly 2006, to name just a few) and is required reading in graduate seminars on archaeological methods, theory, and professional ethics in anthropology programs across the country. The pervasive and open-ended nature of repatriation as it continues to unfold in universities, Am ...
... Yohe 2003; Thomas and Kelly 2006, to name just a few) and is required reading in graduate seminars on archaeological methods, theory, and professional ethics in anthropology programs across the country. The pervasive and open-ended nature of repatriation as it continues to unfold in universities, Am ...
Open - UCL
... understanding of an issue. Some essays are essentially just a string of quotations illustrating what others have said, but demonstrate no critical assessment of their claims, or clear understanding of the issues. These simply demonstrate that you ...
... understanding of an issue. Some essays are essentially just a string of quotations illustrating what others have said, but demonstrate no critical assessment of their claims, or clear understanding of the issues. These simply demonstrate that you ...
People with history: An update on historical
... The separate categories of lifeway studies and cognitive or cultural studies reflected real trends in the discipline 15 years ago, but it no longer makes sense to attempt one without the other. Nor does it make sense to separate the goals of historical archaeology from those of anthropology as a who ...
... The separate categories of lifeway studies and cognitive or cultural studies reflected real trends in the discipline 15 years ago, but it no longer makes sense to attempt one without the other. Nor does it make sense to separate the goals of historical archaeology from those of anthropology as a who ...
Saturday - Society for American Archaeology
... Laszlo Paja, Julia I. Giblin, Györgyi Parditka and Paul R. Duffy—Cremations in ...
... Laszlo Paja, Julia I. Giblin, Györgyi Parditka and Paul R. Duffy—Cremations in ...
1 The “Ethnographic Turn” in Archaeology
... political histories of archaeology (Patterson 1986, 1994, 1999, 2003; Rutsch 2002; Kehoe 1998) as well as many of the “internal” analyses of the sociopolitical dimensions of archaeological practices, epistemology, and interpretations (Leone, Potter, and Schakel 1987; Gero and Conkey 1991; Gero, Lacy ...
... political histories of archaeology (Patterson 1986, 1994, 1999, 2003; Rutsch 2002; Kehoe 1998) as well as many of the “internal” analyses of the sociopolitical dimensions of archaeological practices, epistemology, and interpretations (Leone, Potter, and Schakel 1987; Gero and Conkey 1991; Gero, Lacy ...
Post-Processual Archaeology and After
... or indeed denies the significance of the past itself in a play on the meanings of the past for the present, where multiple contradictory pasts can claim equal validity. I take the caricature seriously because the polarization of extremes it involves is a genuine feature of Anglo-American academic ar ...
... or indeed denies the significance of the past itself in a play on the meanings of the past for the present, where multiple contradictory pasts can claim equal validity. I take the caricature seriously because the polarization of extremes it involves is a genuine feature of Anglo-American academic ar ...
Re-Presenting the Past
... (1) Representations of the archaeological past are examples of interpretation. They have a history of past models, present motivation, and future objectives that permit a deeper understanding of archaeology as an historical practice that changes over time. At all levels, representation involves mean ...
... (1) Representations of the archaeological past are examples of interpretation. They have a history of past models, present motivation, and future objectives that permit a deeper understanding of archaeology as an historical practice that changes over time. At all levels, representation involves mean ...
Archaeology Is Anthropology - CLAS Users
... rather than as the alternative, history, with "its ultimate purpose [being] the discovery of regularities that are in a sense spaceless and timeless" (Phillips 1955:247). He nevertheless recognized that anthropology was "a hybridization of science and history" (Phillips 1955:247), standing with one ...
... rather than as the alternative, history, with "its ultimate purpose [being] the discovery of regularities that are in a sense spaceless and timeless" (Phillips 1955:247). He nevertheless recognized that anthropology was "a hybridization of science and history" (Phillips 1955:247), standing with one ...
Chapter 1. Is Archaeology Anthropology - CLAS Users
... Insufficient Justification for Present Circumstances The separation of archaeology from anthropology is often taken to be a quite logical step given that in many other countries archaeology is not housed in anthropology departments but instead is found in free-standing departments of archaeology or ...
... Insufficient Justification for Present Circumstances The separation of archaeology from anthropology is often taken to be a quite logical step given that in many other countries archaeology is not housed in anthropology departments but instead is found in free-standing departments of archaeology or ...
Teaching Archaeology as Anthropology. - CLAS Users
... in order to better prepare students for the realities of aranthropology) approach to the training of archaeolochaeology as it is practiced. The SAA Task Force on gists has been questioned, particularly for archaeoloCurriculum is following up on this blueprint, planning gists heading for nonacademic ...
... in order to better prepare students for the realities of aranthropology) approach to the training of archaeolochaeology as it is practiced. The SAA Task Force on gists has been questioned, particularly for archaeoloCurriculum is following up on this blueprint, planning gists heading for nonacademic ...
The World as Artefact: Material Culture Studies and Archaeology
... Paul Bahn advocates a general attitude in his Bluff your way in archaeology that “Ethnoarchaeology…[is] an excellent means of getting an exotic adventure holiday in a remote location … After figuring out what you think is going on with the use and discard of objects (you should never stay around lon ...
... Paul Bahn advocates a general attitude in his Bluff your way in archaeology that “Ethnoarchaeology…[is] an excellent means of getting an exotic adventure holiday in a remote location … After figuring out what you think is going on with the use and discard of objects (you should never stay around lon ...
culture contact studies - redefining the relationship
... area where archaeologists can make significant contributions to historical anthropology. We must recognize, however, that the archaeology of pluralism is very much in its infancy. A significant challenge for archaeology in the 1990s is the development of theoretical models and methodological practic ...
... area where archaeologists can make significant contributions to historical anthropology. We must recognize, however, that the archaeology of pluralism is very much in its infancy. A significant challenge for archaeology in the 1990s is the development of theoretical models and methodological practic ...
2016 asor annual meeting – paper abstracts
... and find itself becoming increasingly relevant in interdisciplinary research agendas, disseminated further, and better known in the public domain. 1B. Archaeology of Anatolia I CHAIR: Levent Atici (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Presiding Arkadiusz Marciniak (University of Poznan), “The Late Neol ...
... and find itself becoming increasingly relevant in interdisciplinary research agendas, disseminated further, and better known in the public domain. 1B. Archaeology of Anatolia I CHAIR: Levent Atici (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Presiding Arkadiusz Marciniak (University of Poznan), “The Late Neol ...
The life of an artifact in an interpretive archaeology
... alike. In common we have our materiality. When a building collapses, the order of its construction and interior spaces disperses. We meet the commixture of materials and things in our excavation whose object is, among other things, to reorder, to abolish the disorder of collapse and dilapidation, to ...
... alike. In common we have our materiality. When a building collapses, the order of its construction and interior spaces disperses. We meet the commixture of materials and things in our excavation whose object is, among other things, to reorder, to abolish the disorder of collapse and dilapidation, to ...
Consuming and communicating identities
... varied social environment that this brings, not least manifested during lunch and coffee breaks. The numerous colleagues at the department of Archaeology and Classical Studies are far too many to name here, but some inevitably deserve a special mentioning. Firstly, Ylva Sjöstrand, my foremost partne ...
... varied social environment that this brings, not least manifested during lunch and coffee breaks. The numerous colleagues at the department of Archaeology and Classical Studies are far too many to name here, but some inevitably deserve a special mentioning. Firstly, Ylva Sjöstrand, my foremost partne ...
Historical Archaeology from a World Perspective
... Reading these comments, it is invitable to remind Evelyn Waugh’s British sense of humour when she said that “we are all American at puberty; we die French”. However, it was not by chance that historical archaeology begun in the United States and the use of the term is still very much American, rathe ...
... Reading these comments, it is invitable to remind Evelyn Waugh’s British sense of humour when she said that “we are all American at puberty; we die French”. However, it was not by chance that historical archaeology begun in the United States and the use of the term is still very much American, rathe ...
his 105 –archaeology of the nigerian region
... ago and lasted through most of the Pleistocene ice age (8300 BC). The oldest form of man had evolved by the early Pleistocene (Australopithecus). The Palaeolithic period is divided into three phases based on the development of man’s economy and the manufacture and use of tools. The three periods are ...
... ago and lasted through most of the Pleistocene ice age (8300 BC). The oldest form of man had evolved by the early Pleistocene (Australopithecus). The Palaeolithic period is divided into three phases based on the development of man’s economy and the manufacture and use of tools. The three periods are ...
Ethnicity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodological
... role in the definition of races, but language, psychology, and cultural and intellectual ability were also seen as important. Racial determinism was widespread and, to greater or lesser degrees, racial theories posited a direct relationship between biological and cultural capabilities (Stepan 1982). ...
... role in the definition of races, but language, psychology, and cultural and intellectual ability were also seen as important. Racial determinism was widespread and, to greater or lesser degrees, racial theories posited a direct relationship between biological and cultural capabilities (Stepan 1982). ...
Three-age system
The three-age system in archaeology and physical anthropology is the periodization of human prehistory and history into three consecutive time periods, named for their respective tool-making technologies: The Stone Age The Bronze Age The Iron Age