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1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"Contributors illustrate the virtues of various ecological, experimental, statistical, and cognitive/social approaches for understanding the origins, formation histories, and inferential potential of a wide range of archaeological phenomena"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Working with archaeological variability in the 21st century, thinking about materiality, epistemology, and ontology / by Alan P. Sullivan III and Deborah I. Olszewski -- A lithic perspective on ecological dynamics in the upper pleistocene of western Eurasia / by C. Michael Barton and Julien Riel-Salvatore -- Significance of "persistent places" in shaping regional settlement history : the case of the Mimbres Mogollon / by Barbara J. Roth -- Reductive technology and the epipaleolithic of the Middle East and North Africa / by Deborah I. Olszewski -- Context and complexity on the arid margins of Australia : assessing human responses to an unpredictable environment / by Simon J. Holdaway, Justin I. Shiner, Patricia C. Fanning and Matthew J. Douglass -- Theoretical implications of artifact-scatter lithic assemblage variability for mobility-based models of technological organization / by Alan P. Sullivan III -- Timelessness and the legacy of archaeological cartography / by Sissel Schroeder and Lynne Goldstein -- Sherd cross-joins, ceramic use-wear, and depositional history : rethinking the sociopolitical aftermath of a collapsed Bronze age cistern at Myrtos-Pyrgos, Crete / by Emilia Oddo and Gerald Cadogan -- Estimating the population size of Casas Grandes: empirical issues and theoretical consequences / by David R. Wilcox -- Biface production at Tabun : manufacture, maintenance, and morphological variability / by Gary O. Rollefson -- Celebrating the dead and recrafting social identity : placing prehistoric mortuary practices in broader social context / by Brian F. Byrd and Jeffrey Rosenthal -- Flint from the ancestors : ritualized use of stone tools in the prehistoric Southwest / by John C. Whittaker and Kathryn A. Kamp -- Form, function, and mental templates in paleolithic archaeology / by Philip G. Chase -- Role of controlled experiments in understanding variation in flake production / by Zeljko Rezek, Sam Lin, and Harold L. Dibble. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Methodology.
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Archaeology -- Methodology. |
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Olszewski, Deborah, editor.
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Sullivan, Alan P., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Archaeological variability and interpretation in global perspective. Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016] 9781607324935 (DLC) 2016000562 (OCoLC)934938754 |
| ISBN |
9781607324942 (electronic book) |
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1607324946 (electronic book) |
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9781607324935 (cloth) |
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1607324938 (cloth) |
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