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Processual Archaeology Exploring Analytical Strategies, Frames of Reference, and Culture Process
Amber L. Johnson
ISBN: 0-275-97843-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97843-3
364 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2004
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Description: Processual archaeologists seek to explain variability in the static archaeological record we observe in the present as a necessary first step toward learning how to learn about the operation of cultural dynamics in the past. The approach is a diverse and productive one that focuses on developing learning strategies. Researchers pursuing processual archaeology have already discovered a great deal about the archaeological record and about past dynamics, and there is a huge potential for building on the foundation laid thus far.

The contributors to this volume provide clearly written research articles that are easily accessible to upper-level undergraduates and professional archaeologists. Although the papers do not focus on a single region, time period, or domain of observation (e.g. settlement patterns or lithics or site structure), they are integrated by shared goals for archaeology. This book clearly demonstrates that processual archaeology, far from having been replaced by post-processual archaeology, is becoming more and more powerful as our analytic sophistication and knowledge of the archaeological record grow.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: Searching for Home in the Modern Landscape of Archaeology by Robert L. Kelly
    The Goals of Processual Archaeology by Amber L. Johnson
    Middle Paleolithic Assemblage Formation at Riparo Mochi by Steven L. Kuhn
    Taphonomy and Site Structure of a Late Paleolithic Open-air Site by James G. Enloe
    Modes of Ceramic Production and Distribution: Some Observations from Philippine Ethnoarchaeology by William A. Longacre
    Mobility, Sendentism, and Intensification: Organizational Responses to Environmental and Social Change among the San of Southern Africa by Robert K. Hitchcock
    Poison Hunting Stategies and the Organization of Technology in the Circumpolar Region by Alan J. Osborn
    The Functional Hypothesis Revisited: An Evaluation of Cumulative Graphs Using the Mousterian in the Eastern Sahara of Egypt and in Southwest France by Fred Wendorf and Romauld Schild
    Population Ecology, Predator-Prey Dynamics, and Paleolithic Society by Mary C. Stiner
    On Niche Breadth, System Stability and the Importance of a Phrase by Amber L. Johnson
    Niche--A Productive Guide for Use in the Analysis of Cultural Complexity by Lewis R. Binford
    Solving Meno's Puzzle, Defeating Merlin's Subterfuge: Bodies of Reference Knowledge and Archaeological Inference by LuAnn Wandsnider
About the Author: AMBER L. JOHNSON received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Methodist University in 1997 and is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at Truman State University. Her research interests are in learning to explain variability in the pace and pattern of long term culture change processes through comparison of archaeological sequences on a global scale.
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