Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology
ISBN-13:
9780803280526
ISBN-10:
0803280521
Edition:
1
Author:
R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. OBrien
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Format:
Paperback
348 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780803280526
ISBN-10:
0803280521
Edition:
1
Author:
R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. OBrien
Publication date:
2006
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Format:
Paperback
348 pages
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Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology (ISBN-13: 9780803280526 and ISBN-10: 0803280521), written by authors
R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. OBrien, was published by University of Nebraska Press in 2006.
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Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes in artifacts, sites, and peoples over time. In highlighting the underpinning ontology and epistemology of artifact-based chronometers—cultural transmission and how to measure it archaeologically—this volume covers issues such as why archaeologists used the cultural evolutionism of L. H. Morgan, E. B. Tylor, L. A. White, and others instead of biological evolutionism; why artifact classification played a critical role in the adoption of stratigraphic excavation; how the direct historical approach accomplished three analytical tasks at once; why cultural traits were important analytical units; why paleontological and archaeological methods sometimes mirror one another; how artifact classification influences chronometric method; and how graphs illustrate change in artifacts over time.An understanding of the history of artifact-based chronometers enables us to understand how we know what we think we know about the past, ensures against modern misapplication of the methods, and sheds light on the reasoning behind archaeologists' actions during the first half of the twentieth century.
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