In Pursuit of the Past - Decoding the Archaeological Record

An overview of the famous archaeologist, Lewis Binford's theories. The chapters were originally presented as public lectures and the book was used for years in undergraduate archaeology and anthropology courses.

List of contents

Foreword
Editorial Note
Author's Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Translating the Archaeological Record

PART I: WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
2. Man the Mighty Hunter?
3. Life and Death at the Waterhole

PART II: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
4. The Challenge of the Mousterian
5. An Archaeological Odyssey
6. Hunters in a Landscape
7. People in their Lifespace

PART III. WHY DID IT HAPPEN?
8. On the Origins of Agriculture
9. Paths to Complexity

Afterword to the 2002 Edition
Notes on the Text
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Lewis R. Binford is University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets (California, 2001), Debating Archaeology (1989), Working at Archaeology (1983), and many other books.

Summary

This text questions established ideas and proposes theories based on the author's comparative archaeological and ethnographic research. It seeks to provide students and general readers with an introduction to his ideas about understanding the human past.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis R. Binford, Lewis Roberts Binford, Binford Lewis R.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2002
• EAN: 9780520233393
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23339-3
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Europe, Australia, North America, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Zimbabwe, North America (USA and Canada), Physical anthropology, Archaeological Theory