Behavioral Archaeology - Principles and Practice (Gnv64)

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Contents

Preface

Michael Brian Schiffer

IX

I. INTRODUCTION

I

.

2.

Behavioral Archaeology: Origins and the Four Strategies

3

Conceptual Foundations

9

II. INFERENCE AND FORMATION PROCESSES

3.

Archaeologicallnference

19

4.

Cultural Formation Processes

31

5.

Noncultural (Environmental) Formation Processes

42

6.

Identifying Formation Processes

53

7.

Building Chronologies: A Hohokam Case Study

62

8.

The Archaeological Process

71

III. TECHNOLOGY

9. 10.

Research on Technology: History and Overview Studying Technological Change

With James M. Skibo I I

.

83

Ceramic Surface Treatments and Cooking Pot Performance

93 102

viii 12.

BEHAVIORAL ARCHAEOLOGY Folk Theories and Scientific Theories: The Case of the Early Electric Automobile

106

13.

Long-Term Technological Competitions

117

14.

Technological Differentiation

128

15.

Differential Adoption and the Electric Lighthouse

135

16.

The Cascade Model of Invention Processes

141

IV. NEW DIRECTIONS

17.

The "New" Behavioral Archaeology

18.

Ritual and Religion

Kacy L. Hollenback 19.



164

The Materiality of Social Power

With William H. Walker 2I

156

A Behavioral Theory of Meaning

With the assistance of Andrea R. Miller 20.

153

175

Landscapes

Kacy L. Hollenback

186

Bibliography

194

Index

216