Archaeology on the Threshold: Studies in the Processes of Change - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 081306953X ISBN 13 : 9780813069531

Editeur : University Press of Florida, 2022

Synopsis

New perspectives on transitions in human
history

This
book is about transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seen
through the lenses of archaeology and ethnography. Incorporating data from
across six continents and tracing the human experience from the Late
Pleistocene to the present, these chapters offer a global comparative perspective
on transitional states. Questions
of causality are considered, as are hypotheses about the processes of cultural
change.

Archaeology on the
Threshold
focuses on major transitions such as the shift from foraging to agriculture,
the adoption of new technologies, the emergence of large-scale societies, the
transition from egalitarian to inegalitarian leadership, and changes that occur
in socioeconomic and ideological systems as a result of climate change and
disease. Theoretical approaches range from processual to postprocessual,
humanistic, and interpretive. Methodologies include ethnoarchaeology, the use
of ethnographic analogy,
cross-cultural comparisons and large-scale data approaches, oral history, the
historical record, participant observation, and focus group discussions.

Challenging archaeologists to query long-held
assumptions and theoretical positions, this volume aims to refocus inquiry into
change-causing and larger evolutionary processes to problematize notions of
revolutionary, irrevocable change. These case studies examine and shed light on assumptions regarding the
linearity and oscillations of adaptations, with intriguing implications for
archaeological inferences.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Joseph D. Wardle is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan.

Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

Matthew Schmader is adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

Pei-Lin Yu is an archaeologist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and affiliate professor of anthropology at Boise State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Florida
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081306953X
• ISBN 13: 9780813069531
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 314
• Éditeur: Wardle Joseph D., Hitchcock Robert K., Schmader Matthew, Yu Pei-Lin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible