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Agriculturalists
Amis Tribe
archaeological theory
Boundaries
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Climate
climate change
crop production
cultural change
culture change
culture process
data analysis
Diversification
Early Ancestral Pueblo
Early Archaic
Early Holocene
environmental change
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Ethnoarchaeology
Ethnography
food production
Foraging
Great Basin
Great Drought
Guyana
herding
Horticulture
human prehistory
hunter-gatherer
Hunter-gatherers
Ice Age
indigenous peoples
isotopic analysis
Last Glacial Maximum
Mega Drought
mobile lifeways
Neolithic
North China
Oregon
Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kurile Peninsula
Patagonia
Pleistocene
Processual archaeology
resource management
ritual burning
sedentary village life
shell midden
subsistence
Taiwan
Technology
threshold
Tierra del Fuego
transitions
Willamette Valley
Product details
- ISBN 9780813069531
- Weight: 151g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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New perspectives on transitions in human history
This book is about transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seen through the lenses of archaeology and ethnography. Incorporating data from across six continents and tracing the human experience from the Late Pleistocene to the present, this book offers a global comparative perspective on transitional states.
Questions of causality are considered, as are hypotheses about the processes of cultural change.
Archaeology on the Threshold focuses on major transitions such as the shift from foraging to agriculture, the adoption of new technologies, the emergence of large-scale societies, the transition from egalitarian to inegalitarian leadership, and changes that occur in socioeconomic and ideological systems as a result of climate change and disease. Theoretical approaches range from processual to postprocessual, humanistic, and interpretive. Methodologies include ethnoarchaeology, the use of ethnographic analogy, crosscultural comparisons and large-scale data approaches, oral history, the historical record, participant observation, and focus group discussions.
Challenging archaeologists to query long-held assumptions and theoretical positions, this volume aims to refocus inquiry into change-causing and larger evolutionary processes to problematize notions of revolutionary, irrevocable change.
These case studies examine and shed light on assumptions regarding the linearity and oscillations of adaptations, with intriguing implications for archaeological inferences.
This book is about transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seen through the lenses of archaeology and ethnography. Incorporating data from across six continents and tracing the human experience from the Late Pleistocene to the present, this book offers a global comparative perspective on transitional states.
Questions of causality are considered, as are hypotheses about the processes of cultural change.
Archaeology on the Threshold focuses on major transitions such as the shift from foraging to agriculture, the adoption of new technologies, the emergence of large-scale societies, the transition from egalitarian to inegalitarian leadership, and changes that occur in socioeconomic and ideological systems as a result of climate change and disease. Theoretical approaches range from processual to postprocessual, humanistic, and interpretive. Methodologies include ethnoarchaeology, the use of ethnographic analogy, crosscultural comparisons and large-scale data approaches, oral history, the historical record, participant observation, and focus group discussions.
Challenging archaeologists to query long-held assumptions and theoretical positions, this volume aims to refocus inquiry into change-causing and larger evolutionary processes to problematize notions of revolutionary, irrevocable change.
These case studies examine and shed light on assumptions regarding the linearity and oscillations of adaptations, with intriguing implications for archaeological inferences.
Joseph D. Wardle is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan.
Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Matthew Schmader is adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Pei-Lin Yu is an archaeologist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and affiliate professor of anthropology at Boise State University.
Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Matthew Schmader is adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Pei-Lin Yu is an archaeologist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and affiliate professor of anthropology at Boise State University.
