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archaeological methodology
archaeology
Author_Lewis R. Binford
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cultural evolution
data patterns in archaeology
data patterns in theory development
environmental archaeology
environmental history
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ethnoarchaeology
evolution
excavation
human evolution
hunter gatherer
hunter gatherer cultures
interpretation of archaeological records
new archaeology
social archaeology
social evolution
social science
study of society
using ethnographic data with archaeology
Product details
- ISBN 9780520223936
- Weight: 1814g
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the 'New Archaeology' changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise. This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called 'ethnoarchaeology' - the study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological record - and this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations.
The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.
Lewis R. Binford is University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Debating Archaeology (1989), In Pursuit of the Past (1983), and Working at Archaeology (1983), among many other books.
