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North American archaeologists have grappled with finding a graph that effectively and efficiently displays culture change over time. This volume explores the history of graphing culture change, and brings graph theory, construction, and decipherment to the forefront of archaeological discussion.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Culture Chronology And Change
- 2: An Evaluative Framework
- 3: Materials and Methods
- 4: Early History of Archaeology Graphs
- 5: Paleontological, Palynological, Biological, and Physical Anthropology Graphs
- 6: Archaeology Spindle Graphs in the 1930s
- 7: Shopping Around and One-Off Graphs
- 8: The Fourth (and Influential) Introduction of Spindle Graphs
- 9: Observations on Graphing Prehistory
- 10: Final Thoughts
- Appendix 1. Archaeology Literature
- Appendix 2. Paleontology Literature
- Appendix 3. Anthropology Textbooks
- Appendix 4. Introductory Archaeology Textbooks
- Appendix 5. European Archaeology Literature
About the author
R. Lee Lyman is Emeritus Professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He studies the late Quaternary paleomammology and human prehistory of the Pacific Northwest United States, and the history of North American archaeology and paleozoology. He is the author of Quantitative Paleozoology (2008) and Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America (2016), co-author of Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments (2019), and co-editor of Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology (2012).
Summary
North American archaeologists have grappled with finding a graph that effectively and efficiently displays culture change over time. This volume explores the history of graphing culture change, and brings graph theory, construction, and decipherment to the forefront of archaeological discussion.
