DEATH BY THEORY

The author's droll humor helps incorporate theory within many other aspects of archaeology—CRM, field methods, the public, even issues of professionalism. Having taught archaeological theory for many years, I appreciate the revised edition, which is nicely updated to include more illustrations, concepts such as 'agency,' and new references and websites.

CONTENTS

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
1. ‘‘A’’ Is for Archaeology
2. ‘‘A’’ Is (Also) for Artifact
3. ‘‘B’’ Is for Binford
4. ‘‘C’’ Is for Culture Process, and ‘‘E’’ Is for
5. ‘‘D’’ Is for Diffusion
6. ‘‘M’’ Is for Materialism
7. ‘‘G’’ Is for Gender
8. ‘‘M’’ Is for Marx (Karl, That Is)
9. ‘‘N’’ Is for Neoevolutionism, and ‘‘A’’ Is for Agency
10. ‘‘P’’ Is for Postmodern

Epilogue
Talking Points
Glossary
For Further Reading
Index
About the Author/Illustrator

Páginas : 198
Peso : 1mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2011
ISBN : 978-0759119581
Editorial : AltaMira
Autor: Adrian Praetzellis



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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE 98% CHIMPANZEE

Marks presents the field of molecular anthropology—a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive approach of molecular genetics—as a way of improving our understanding of the science of human evolution. This iconoclastic, witty, and extremely readable book illuminates the deep background of our place in nature and asks us to think critically about what science is, and what passes for it, in modern society.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Molecular anthropology
2. The ape in you
3. How people differ from one another
4. The meaning of human variation
5. Behavioral genetics
6. Folk heredity
7. Human nature
8. Human rights . . . for apes?
9. Ahuman gene museum?
10. Identity and descent
11. Is blood really so damn thick?
12. Science, religion, and worldview
Notes and Sources
Index

Páginas : 333
Peso : 1mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2003
ISBN : 978-0520240643
Editorial : University of California
Autor: Jonathan Marks



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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ETHNICITY

The study of ethnicity is a highly controversial area in contemporary archaeology. The identification of ‘cultures’ from archaeological remains and their association with past ethnic groups is now seen by many as hopelessly inadequate. Yet such an approach continues to play a significant role in archaeological enquiry, and in the legitimation of modern ethnic and national claims.

CONTENTS

List of figures
Preface
Definitions
1. Introduction
2. The archaeological identification of peoples and cultures
3. Taxonomies of difference: the classification of peoples in the human sciences
4. Ethnicity: the conceptual and theoretical terrain
5. Multidimensional ethnicity: towards a contextual analytical framework
6. Ethnicity and material culture: towards a theoretical basis for the interpretation of ethnicity in archaeology
7. Conclusions: constructing identities in the past and the present

Notes
References
Index

Páginas : 200
Peso : 1mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :1997
ISBN : 978-0415141581
Editorial : Routledge
Autor: Siân Jones



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LOCAL IDENTITIES

Gerritsen's study investigates how small groups of people—households, or local communities—constitute and represent their social identity by shaping the landscape around them. Examining things like house building and habitation, cremation and burial, and farming and ritual practice, Gerritsen develops a new theoretical and empirical perspective on the practices that create collective senses of identity and belonging. An explicitly diachronic approach reveals processes of cultural and social change that have previously gone unnoticed, providing a basis for a much more dynamic history of the late prehistoric inhabitants of this region.

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Archaeology in a sandy ‘essen’ landscape
3. The house and its inhabitants
4. Local communities and the organisation of the landscape
5. Micro-regional and regional patterns of habitation, demography and land use
6. Landscape, identity and community in the first millennium BC

Páginas : 320
Peso : 5mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2003
ISBN : 978-9053565889
Editorial : Amsterdam University
Autor: Fokke Gerritsen



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ARCHAEOLOGIST'S FIELD HANDBOOK

a clear and detailed manual on the basic principles and practice of archaeological field survey, investigation and record in the modern context of legislative and ethical accountability.'Jack Golson, Emeritus Professor of Prehistory, Australian National University... a most welcome, well done and comprehensive publication... which will be useful to all archaeologists'Archaeology in Oceania

CONTENTS

Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Preparing for fieldwork
2. Navigation and mapping
3. Finding sites
4. Site surveying
5. Basic excavation techniques
6. Recording historical sites
7. Recording Indigenous sites
8. Managing cultural heritage
9. Photography and illustration
10. Getting your results out there: Writing, publication and interpretation
Appendices

Páginas : 432
Peso : 4mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2004
ISBN : 978-1865088624
Editorial : Allen & Unwin
Autor: Heather Burke, Claire Smith



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MAN AFTER MAN

I must admit that I'm somehwat surprised by the controversy surrounding this book. It certainly isn't as good as his other works (the New Dinosaurs, After Man and the Future is Wild) but it certainly isn't a terrible book either. It seems that most people dislike it either because it leans so heavily towards sci-fi/paranormal (mainly via psychic powers and genetic engineering) or because it degrades humankind. Honestly, if you have no problem with sci-fi influences or with a pessimistic attitude towards human nature then you probably won't be too offended by this book.

CONTENTS

Introduction – Evolution and Man
Part One: In the Beginning
Part Two. Man After Man

Páginas : 128
Peso : 22mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :1990
ISBN : 0312035608
Editorial : St Martins
Autor: Dougal Dixon, Philip Hood



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TIME AND ARCHAEOLOGY

The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international range of contributors, which combine theoretical and empirical material. They illustrate and explore the diversity of archaeological approaches to time.

CONTENTS

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface

Introduction
1. A Return to The ‘Pompeii Premise
2. Indian and Other Concepts of Time: A Holistic Framework
3. Puranic Time and The Archaeological Record
4. German Romantic Chronology And Its Impact on The Interpretation Of Prehistory
5. Keeping Industrial Time
6. Developing An Indian Stone Age Chronology
7. Appraising The Urban Future: an Archaeological Time Perspective
8. The Hochdorf ‘Princely’ Grave and The Question of The Nature of Archaeological Funerary Assemblages
9. The Times Of History: Archaeology, Narrative and Non-Linear Causality

Index

Páginas : 192
Peso : 1mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :1999
ISBN : 978-0415117623
Editorial : Routledge; annotated
Autor Tim Murray


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MACROEVOLUTION IN HUMAN PREHISTORY: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND PROCESSUAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Cultural evolution, much like general evolution, works from the assumption that cultures are descendent from much earlier ancestors. Human culture manifests itself in forms ranging from the small bands of hunters, through intermediate scale complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, to the high density urban settlements and complex polities that characterize much of today’s world. The chapters in the volume examine the dynamic interaction between the micro- and macro-scales of cultural evolution, developing a theoretical approach to the archaeological record that has been termed evolutionary processual archaeology. The contributions in this volume integrate positive elements of both evolutionary and processualist schools of thought. The approach, as explicated by the contributors in this work, offers novel insights into topics that include the emergence, stasis, collapse and extinction of cultural patterns, and development of social inequalities. Consequently, these contributions form a stepping off point for a significant new range of cultural evolutionary studies.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Part I Issues in Macroevolutionary Theory
Part II Macroevolutionary Approaches to Cultural Change
Part III Cultural Diversification, Stasis and Extinction as Macroevolutionary Processes
Part IV Macroevolutionary Theory in Archaeology

Páginas : 336
Peso : 3mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2009
ISBN : 978-1441906816
Editorial : Springer
Autor Anna Prentiss, Ian Kuijt , James C. Chatters


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