1st Edition

Archeology in Cultural Systems

By Lewis R. Binford Copyright 1968
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

383 Pages
by Routledge

Archeology shares with other anthropological sciences the goal of explaining differences and similarities among cultural systems. Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford, therefore are concerned with theory and arguments which treat problems of the interrelationship of cultural variables with explanatory value. Archeology in Cultural Systems is devoted to four different aspects of archeology.... Read more
I: Archeological Theory and Method; 1: Archeological Perspectives; 2: Explanation in Archeology; 3: The Inference of Residence and Descent Rules from Archeological Data; 4: Variability and Change in the Near Eastern Mousterian of Levallois Facies; 5: Method and Theory of Upper Paleolithic Archeology in Southwestern France; II: Investigating Variability in the Archeological Record: A Single Occupation Unit; 6: Some Aspects of Prehistoric Society in East-Central Arizona; 7: Broken K Pueblo: Patterns of Form and Function; 8: Computer Analysis of Archeological Data from Teotihuacan, Mexico; 9: Archeological Lessons from an Apache Wickiup; 10: Establishing Cultural Heterogeneities in Settlement Patterns: An Ethnographic Example; III: Investigating Variability in the Archeological Record: Variability among Occupational Units; 11: Value Systems and Trade Cycles of the Late Archaic in the Midwest; 12: Investigations of Late Prehistoric Social Organization in New York State; 13: Evidence of Social Organization from Western Iran, 8000–4000 b . c .; 14: Social and Economic Systems in Normative Mesoamerica; 15: Woodland Subsistence-Settlement Systems in the Lower Illinois Valley; 16: Post-Pleistocene Adaptations; IV: Discussion

Biography

Lewis R. Binford