Michael Brian Schiffer ; with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and contributions by Kacy L. Hollenback, James M. Skibo and William H. Walker
Oakville [Conn.] :
Equinox Pub.,
2010
x, 220 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm
Equinox handbooks in anthropological archaeology
Includes bibliographical references and index
Origins and the four strategies of behavioral archaeology -- Conceptual foundations -- Archaeological inference -- Cultural formation processes -- Noncultural (environmental) formation processes -- Identifying formation processes -- Building chronologies : a Hohokam case study -- The archaeological process -- Research on technology : history and overview -- Studying technological change / with James M. Skibo -- Ceramic surface treatments and cooking pot performance -- Folk theories and scientific theories : the case of the early electric automobile -- Long-term technological competitions -- Technological differentiation -- Differential adoption and the electric lighthouse -- The cascade model of invention processes -- The "new" behavioral archaeology -- Ritual and religion / Kacy L. Hollenback -- A behavioral theory of meaning / with the assistance of Andrea R. Miller -- The materiality of social power / with William H. Walker -- Landscapes / Kacy L. Hollenback