People and Things A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture
People and Things: A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture James M. Skibo, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Normal, IL Michael B. Schiffer, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ The core of archaeology is the r
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James M. Skibo • Michael Brian Schiffer
People and Things A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture
James M. Skibo Illinois State University Normal, IL USA [email protected]
Michael Brian Schiffer University of Arizona Tucson, AZ USA [email protected]
The following chapters are reprinted in modified form with permission from the indicated sources: Chapter 3: Exploring the Origins of Pottery on the Colorado Plateau (with Eric Blinman), Pottery and People (1999), edited by J. M. Skibo and G. Feinman, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Chapter 4: Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking Revisited (with John G. Franzen and Eric C. Drake), Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory (2007), edited by J. M. Skibo, M. Graves, and M. Stark, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Chapter 5: The Devil Is in the Details: The Cascade Model of Invention Processes, American Antiquity (2005) 70: 485-502. Chapter 6: Ball Courts and Ritual Performance (with William H. Walker), The Joyce Well Site, edited by J. M. Skibo, E. McCluney, and W. Walker, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Chapter 7: Social Theory and History in Behavioral Archaeology, Expanding Archaeology (1999), edited by J. M. Skibo, W. Walker, and A. Nielson, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Chapter 8: Studying Technological Differentiation, American Anthropologist (2002) 104: 1148-1161.
ISBN: 978-0-387-76524-2 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-76527-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76527-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008920067 © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY-10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover illustration: “Colorful Cadenas,” courtesy of Nathaniel Hardwick Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
Preface
The study of the human-made world, whether it is called artifacts, material culture, or technology, has burgeoned across the academy. Archaeologists have for centuries led the way, and today offer investigators myriad programs and conceptual frameworks for engaging the things, ordinary and extraordinary, of everyday life. This book is an attempt by practitioners of one program – Behavioral Archaeology – to furnish between two covers some of our basic principles, heuristic tools, and illustrative case studies. Our greater purpose, however, is to engage the ideas of two competing programs – agency/practice and evolution
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