Applying Evolutionary Archaeology,9780306462535

Applying Evolutionary Archaeology

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ISBN13: 9780306462535
ISBN10: 0306462532
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Plenum Pub Corp
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Summary

This book is an in-depth treatment of Darwinian evolutionism and its applicability to the investigation of the archaeological record. The authors explain the unique position that this kind of evolutionism holds in science and how it bears on any attempt to explain change over time in the organic world, demonstrate commonalities between archaeology and paleobiology, and explain the principles, methods, and techniques - the systematics - inherent in the approach.

Table of Contents

Darwinian Theory and Archaeology
1(24)
The Long Search for a Workable Evolutionism
4(6)
Sorting through the Issues
10(15)
Two Kinds of Science: Essentialism and Materialism
25(48)
One View of Science
30(1)
Two Contrasting Views of Reality
31(5)
The Materialist Paradox and the Study of Species
36(37)
The Materialist Paradox in Archaeology
73(56)
On the Eve of Culture History
77(11)
Culture History and Measuring Time with Artifacts
88(25)
Culture History and the Classification of Artifact Aggregates
113(14)
At the End of the 1950s
127(2)
The Place of History in Modern Paleobiology and Archaeology
129(58)
History: The Heart of the Matter
130(9)
Paleobiology as the Science of Organic Evolution
139(25)
Processual Archaeology
164(15)
Darwinian Archaeology: A Retooled Culture History
179(8)
Archaeological Units and Their Construction
187(58)
Ideational and Empirical Units
190(3)
Groups and Classes
193(7)
Biological Species as Classes
200(7)
Archaeological Types as Units
207(23)
Fossil Species as Groups and Classes
230(12)
Beyond Unit Construction
242(3)
Building and Testing Historical Lineages
245(56)
Biological Lineages as Heritable Continuity
248(9)
Historical Continuity, Heritable Continuity, and the Study of Artifacts
257(14)
Seriation
271(30)
Tempo and Mode in Evolution
301(44)
Graphing Fine-Scale Biological Change
303(17)
Measuring the Tempo and Mode of Change in Prehistory
320(22)
Classification and Clade Diversity
342(3)
Explaining Lineage Histories
345(40)
Putting the Pieces Together
350(32)
Replicators and Interactors Revisited
382(3)
Evolutionary Archaeology: An Epilogue
385(12)
Heredity and Taxonomy
387(5)
In Defense of Systematics
392(2)
A Concluding Note
394(3)
Glossary 397(10)
References 407(48)
Index 455

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