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Processual Archaeology Exploring Analytical Strategies, Frames of Reference, and Culture Process
Amber L. Johnson
Book Code: C7843
ISBN: 0-275-97843-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97843-3
364 pages, figures; tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2004
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Processual archaeology is certainly not dead, and this book reminds us of some of the aspects of its many ongoing contributions. Where would archeology be--not only in America, but truly around the world--without the theoretical contributions and practical applications of Binford, his students, and colleagues, as is clearly shown in this stimulating, paradigmatic perspective on how to tease information on patterns of human behavior out of the silent stones, bones, and shreds of the remote past.
    —Journal of Anthropological Research     2005
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 This book clearly demonstrates that processual archaeology, far from having been replaced by post-processual archaeology, is becoming more and more powerful as our analytic sophistication and knowledge of the archaeological record grow.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
LC Card Number: 2004052152
LCC Class: CC75
Dewey Class: 930
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