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1 Online-Ressource (viii, 357 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511558221
Content:
American archaeology today encompasses a huge range of approaches and draws eclectically on a multitude of academic disciplines. Until now, however, there has been no book seeking to separate the main strands and traditions of research and present a rounded picture of American archaeological thought in all its diversity. The seventeen essays in Archaeological Thought in America describe recent theoretical advances and present substantive interpretations of prehistoric data drawn from a variety of cultures and time-frames, including Mesoamerica, Central Asia, India and China. The contributors include many of the leading North American archaeologists of this generation
Content:
History and contemporary American archaeology / Bruce Trigger -- Aspects of the application of evolutionary theory in archaeology / Robert Dunnel -- The "New Archaeology" then and now / Lewis Binford -- Marxism in American archaeology / Antonio Gilman -- Formal approaches in archaeology / George Cowgill -- Ideology and evolutionism in American archaeology / Arthur Demarest -- The present and the future of hunter -gatherer studies / John Yellen -- Paleopathology and the interpretation of economic change in prehistory / Mark Cohen -- The structural analysis of Paleolithic art / Margaret Conkey -- Ancient China and its anthropological significance / Kwang-Chih Chang -- Settlement pattern studies and evidences for intensive agriculture in the Maya Lowlands / Gordon Willey -- The political economy of the Inka empire / Timothy Earle, Terence D'Altroy -- An epigenetic view of the Harappan culture / W.A. Fariservis -- The use and abuse of world systems theory / Philip Kohl -- Msopotamia, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- New tracks on ancient frontiers / Rita Wright -- Pastoralism and the early state in Greater Mesopotamia / Allen Zagarell
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521354523
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521406437
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521354523
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511558221
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