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Theories

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Changing Aims and Methods in Prehistory (1935)

DOCUMENT Citation Only V. Gordon Childe.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

The Coevolution of Niche Construction and Niche Adaptation in the Hominin Lineage: Toward Understanding Culture (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Benitez. John Murray.

This is an abstract from the "The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and Human Origins: Archaeological Perspectives" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the most significant, yet understudied, subjects in paleoanthropology is the emergence of culture and its resulting transition from biological evolution to human-specific biocultural evolution. Scholarship on this topic has historically been lacking partly due to an absence of a coherent framework...

Cognitive Archaeology and the Minimum Necessary Competence Problem (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ross Pain. Anton Killin.

This is an abstract from the "Inference in Paleoarchaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cognitive archaeology faces the problem of minimum necessary competence: as the most sophisticated thinking of ancient hominins may have been in domains that leave no archaeological signature, it is safest to assume that tool production and use reflects only the lower boundary of cognitive capacities. Cognitive archaeology involves selecting a model from...

Collective Action in Inter-Theoretical Perspective (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean Saitta.

It has been five years since The Archaeology of Collective Action was published in UPF’s "American Experience" series. This paper summarizes the purpose of the book and reflects on the dozen or so reviews that appeared in a wide variety of publications. It also describes the "reviewer polarization" that was produced when the essence of the book was distilled and packaged for inclusion in an edited volume on the evolutionary dynamics of cooperative behavior. This polarization forced...

Collective Identity of Marginal Peoples: the North Carolina Example (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. K. Dane. B. Eugene Griessman.

Colonization or Migration? Applying colonial theory to Post-Roman Britain (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooke Creager.

Colonial studies has long ignored early medieval Britain. However thanks to archaeology it is possible to reconstruct enough the conditions of the fifth and sixth centuries to understand the impact of the multiple colonizations. England experienced two distinct occupations by foreign parties before the Norman Conquest: the expansion of the Roman Empire into Britain ending in 410 AD and the Anglo-Saxon migration beginning in the mid-fifth century. Neither of these occurrences has been discussed...

Comments On David Meltzer's "Paradigms and the Nature of Change in American Archaeology" (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay R. Custer.

Comparative Water Histories: An Outline of Contrastive Juxtaposition as Method in Anthropological Archaeology (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Harrower.

Anthropology has long been marked by tension between emphasis on commonalities among histories and cultures on one hand, alongside emphasis on histories and cultures as unique, contingent, and exceptional on the other. Vernon Scarborough is one of few who have pioneered new understanding of water among ancient societies through both focused study of particular regions, as well as broad, synthetic comparison of water among ancient societies worldwide. In an era marked by a daily increasing...

Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Retrospect and Prospect. In: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers: the Emergence of Complexity (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Brown. T. Douglas Price.

The Complexities of Managing Global Forensic Archaeology with Differing Archaeological Entities, including CRM Firms, Private NGOs, University Researchers, and Field Schools in the Search for Missing US Servicemen. (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denise To.

This is an abstract from the "Forensic Archaeology: Research & Practice" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is a US DoD organization that has the awesome responsibility of conducting and managing world-wide forensic archaeological excavations to recover missing US military servicemen from past conflicts. The DPAA-Lab (which traces back to 1947) has the sole forensic authority to make positive identifications of...

Conceptual Frameworks for Nuu-chah-nulth Whaling (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Monks.

The Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) of Canada’s west coast are renown ethnographically for their cultural practice of open ocean whaling. Research in the last decade has shed light on the preferred species, the ecological reasons why whales were pursued, the antiquity of whaling, and the economic and social implications of whaling. Most of this research has been substantive and methodological in nature with only modest attention to theoretical issues. In this paper, I take a Human Behavioral Ecology...

Conceptual premises in experimental design and their bearing on the use of analogy: an example from experiments on cut marks (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Domínguez Rodrigo.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Concurrences and Discrepancies in Ancient Egypt (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Willeke Wendrich.

Studying ancient Egypt, with its rich textual, iconographic and archaeological records, requires an interdisciplinary approach. Any research along these lines will at some point find both concurrences and discrepancies in the information. Especially the latter require further analysis, involvement of yet other sources and lead to the realization that we need to theorize the fundamentally different types of information, audiences, purposes, and sometimes cross-purposes, of the things we...

Conditions of Agricultural Growth: the Economics of Agrarian Change Under Population Pressure (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ester Boserup.

Conflict Behind the Lines: Considering Civilians in Conflict Archeology (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl Carlson-Drexler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In challenging the battle-focused perception of Conflict Archeology, we need to consider the deep reach of warfare and social strife to areas away from the front lines. Archeologists have been trying to consider civilian connections to war in...

Consideration of Archaeological Research Design (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lewis R. Binford.

Consideration of Archaeological Research Design. in an Archaeological Perspective (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lewis R. Binford.

Constraints On a Theory of Hominid Tool-Making Behavior (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Atran.

Constructing the Herd: Critically Considering the Temporality of Human-Animal Relations in Archaeological Analysis (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theo Kassebaum.

This is an abstract from the "If Animals Could Speak: Negotiating Relational Dynamics between Humans and Animals" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The concept of the herd is often deployed when discussing systems of animal management in the ancient past, sometimes explicitly but most often implicitly. Due to the nature of the archaeological record, zooarchaeological assemblages often compress multiple generations of livestock into a single dataset....

Construction of a Deductive Model By Simulation of a Traditional Archaeological Study (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. F. Borillo.

Contemporary Archaeology in Indigenous Communities? (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Magnani.

This presentation critically evaluates both the historic and present trajectories of the field of ethnoarchaeology and its outgrowths as practiced in indigenous communities today. This paper draws on long-term fieldwork conducted amongst two distinct communities who inhabit Arctic Europe and east Africa. I reflect upon the development and current state of ethnoarchaeology— often used as a tool to interpret archaeological remains of the deep past— and suggest new potential functions and...

Contemporary Hunter-Gather Archaeology in America: In American Archaeology Past and Future: a Celebration of the Society for American Arch (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Hurst Thomas.

Contemporary Model Building: Paradigms and the Current State of Paleolithic Research (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lewis R. Binford.

Context in Archaeology: An Alternative Perspective (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karl W. Butzer.

Context, Structure, and Efficacy in Paleolithic Art and Design. In: Symbol As Senses (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret W. Conkey.

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