Archaeology on the Threshold: Studies in the Processes of Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081306953X ISBN 13: 9780813069531

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

New perspectives on transitions in humanhistory

 

Thisbook is about transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seenthrough the lenses of archaeology and ethnography. Incorporating data fromacross six continents and tracing the human experience from the LatePleistocene to the present, these chapters offer a global comparative perspectiveon transitional states. Questionsof causality are considered, as are hypotheses about the processes of culturalchange.

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

Challenging archaeologists to query long-heldassumptions and theoretical positions, this volume aims to refocus inquiry intochange-causing and larger evolutionary processes to problematize notions ofrevolutionary, irrevocable change. These case studies examine and shed light on assumptions regarding thelinearity and oscillations of adaptations, with intriguing implications forarchaeological inferences.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 081306953X
• ISBN 13: 9780813069531
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 314
• Herausgeber: Wardle Joseph D., Hitchcock Robert K., Schmader Matthew, Yu Pei-Lin
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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