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1 - Archaeology and the Study of Gender
MARGARET W. CONKEY and JANET D. SPECTOR
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2 - Too Many Types: An Overview of Sedentary Prestate Societies in the Americas
GARY FEINMAN and JILL NEITZEL
Pages 39-102 - Book chapterAbstract only
3 - The Nature of Organization of Intrasite Archaeological Records and Spatial Analytic Approaches to Their Investigation
CHRISTOPHER CARR
Pages 103-222 - Book chapterAbstract only
4 - Discovering Sites Unseen
FRANCIS P. MCMANAMON
Pages 223-292 - Book chapterAbstract only
5 - Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeology
JAMES I. EBERT
Pages 293-362 - Book chapterAbstract only
5 - Geomagnetic Dating Methods in Archaeology
DANIEL WOLFMAN
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Index
Pages 459-462
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Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 7 is a collection of papers that deals with the study of gender, discovering new sites, and using remote sensing. Some papers describe the prestate societies in the Americas, intrasite archaeological records organization, and geomagnetic dating methods. One paper explains that an explicit framework for the archaeological study of gender should be formulated alongside the existing explicit theory of human social action. Organization of gender behaviors is connected to task differentiation, material culture, cultural solidarity, integration, extradomestic trade. Another paper notes that the extent of social differentiation seems to depend less on the number of people in a society than on its organizational divisions. It emphasizes that the total population and maximal community-size can also determine the number of administrative levels. One paper discusses the approaches and techniques in dealing with the problems of discovering unseen sites, name, their visibility and obtrusiveness. The individual archaeologists can apply remote sensing applications to pursue a cultural resource management or in a certain explanatory archaeological situation. Another paper explains how to obtain accuracy in dating objects and cultural events using geomagnetic methods. The collection is suitable for professional or amateur archaeologists, sociologists, anthropologist, and scientist involved in the analysis of artifacts.
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 7 is a collection of papers that deals with the study of gender, discovering new sites, and using remote sensing. Some papers describe the prestate societies in the Americas, intrasite archaeological records organization, and geomagnetic dating methods. One paper explains that an explicit framework for the archaeological study of gender should be formulated alongside the existing explicit theory of human social action. Organization of gender behaviors is connected to task differentiation, material culture, cultural solidarity, integration, extradomestic trade. Another paper notes that the extent of social differentiation seems to depend less on the number of people in a society than on its organizational divisions. It emphasizes that the total population and maximal community-size can also determine the number of administrative levels. One paper discusses the approaches and techniques in dealing with the problems of discovering unseen sites, name, their visibility and obtrusiveness. The individual archaeologists can apply remote sensing applications to pursue a cultural resource management or in a certain explanatory archaeological situation. Another paper explains how to obtain accuracy in dating objects and cultural events using geomagnetic methods. The collection is suitable for professional or amateur archaeologists, sociologists, anthropologist, and scientist involved in the analysis of artifacts.
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ISBN
978-0-12-003107-8
Language
English
Published
1984
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Copyright © 1984 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Academic Press