Format:
1 online resource (322 pages)
ISBN:
9781139217866
Content:
This book explores the understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views.
Content:
Cover -- UNDERSTANDING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- 1: The Trouble with Theory -- The New Interpretive Dilemma -- What Is the Archaeological Record? -- Artifacts -- Residues -- Sources -- Absent Presences -- 2: The Total Record -- Defining the Archaeological Record in the Nineteenth Century -- Archaeology, History, and the Accidental Record -- Archaeology, Ethnography, and Survivals -- The Complete Collection: Archaeological Heuristics -- The Total Record -- Archaeological Source Criticism -- The Central European Tradition: Archaeological Source Criticism -- The Anglophone Alternative: Sampling Theory -- Incompleteness and the Total Record -- The Paradox of Excavation -- 3: Formation Theory -- Stratigraphy and Deposit Formation -- The Origins and Development of Stratigraphy -- Formation Processes of the Archaeo-Stratigraphic Record -- The Social Interpretation of Stratigraphy -- Taphonomy and Assemblage Formation -- Origins and Development of Assemblage Formation -- The Archaeological Parallax: Statics and Dynamics -- Binford, Schiffer, and the Pompeii Premise -- Time Perspectivism -- Time Averaging -- Accumulations Research -- Palimpsests: The Intersection between Deposit and Assemblage Formation -- Linking Deposit and Assemblage Formation -- Origins and Development of the Palimpsest Concept in Archaeology -- Rethinking Palimpsests and Formation Theory -- 4: Materialized Culture -- The Material Arts in the Nineteenth Centuryand the Externalization Thesis -- Functionalism and the Materialist Reinterpretation of Materiality -- The Anglophone Tradition: Materialism and Material Culture -- The Francophone Tradition: Techniques and Tools -- From Function to Meaning and the Impasse of Poststructuralism.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107010260
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107010260
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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