Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies - A Dialogue

List of contents

one: Evolutionary and Interpretive Archaeologies; 1: Theoretical Concerns; two: Units of Transmission in Evolutionary Archaeology and the Role of Memetics; three: Action and Structure in Interpretive Archaeologies; four: ‘Style versus Function' 30 Years On; five: Intentionality Matters; 2: Contexts of Study; six: Interpretive Archaeologies, Violence and Evolutionary Approaches; seven: Violence and Conflict; eight: Tribes, Peoples, Ethnicity; nine: Cultural Selection, Drift and Ceramic Diversity at Bo?azköy-Hattusa; ten: Cultural and Biological Approaches to the Body in Archaeology; eleven: Missing Links; twelve: The Ambiguity of Landscape; 3: Future Directions; thirteen: Contrasts and Conflicts in Anthropology and Archaeology; fourteen: A Visit to Down House; fifteen: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Goals of Archaeology

About the author

Ethan Cochrane, Andrew Gardner

Summary

This collection of original articles compares various key archaeological topics—agency, violence, social groups, diffusion—from evolutionary and interpretive perspectives.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ethan Cochrane (Editor), Andrew Gardner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2011
• EAN: 9781598744262
• ISBN: 978-1-59874-426-2
• No. of pages: 361
• Weight: 725 g
• Illustrations: Farb., s/w. Abb.
• Series: UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries