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  • Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

    Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

    Edited by Metin I. Eren, Briggs Buchanan ...
    Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Understanding archaeological diversity is key to understanding human culture in the past. Archaeologists have long experienced a tenuous relationship with statistics; however, the regular integration of diversity measures and concepts into archaeological ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    by R. Alexander Bentley, Kenneth M. Ames, Alex W. Barker, Peter Bellwood, Reinhard Bernbeck, John Bintliff, Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard0, Tom D. Dillehay1, Timothy Earle2, Don D. Fowler3, Liane Gabora4, Andrew Gardner5, David W.J. Gill6, Kelly Hays-Gilpin7, ThomasJ Green8, Edward A. Jolie9, Sian Jones0, Peter Jordan1, Stephanie Koerner2, Carl Lipo3, Ben Marler4, Herbert D.G. Maschner5, Randall H. McGuire6, Ian J. McNiven7, Mark Pluciennuk8, Steven D. Price9, Lynette Russell0, Marion Salter1, Michael Shanks2, Stephen Shennan3, Timothy Taylor4, Patty Jo Watson5, Gillian Wallace6, Gary S. Webster7, David S. Whitley8, David R. Yesner9, Marek Zvelebil0 ...
    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology

    Edited by Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan, Metin I. Eren ...
    Series Book 22 - Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the nearly ubiquitous use of stone tools by humans and their ancestors, the study of lithic technology offers ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

    Edited by Bruno David, Julian Thomas ...
    Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Geography

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers

    The Foraging Spectrum

    by Robert L. Kelly ...
    In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Archaeological Theory

    An Introduction

    by Matthew Johnson ...
    Archaeological Theory, 2nd Edition is the most current and comprehensive introduction to the field available. Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text offers students an ideal entry point to the major concepts and ongoing debates in archaeological research.New edition of a popular introductory text that explores the increasing diversity of approaches to archaeological theoryFeatures more ... Read more

    $98.00 USD

  • Stratigraphic Paleobiology

    Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

    by Mark E. Patzkowsky, Steven M. Holland ...
    Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, but in the early 1800s, Charles Lyell's gradualist view of the earth's history required a more nuanced interpretation of that same record. To this day, ... Read more

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  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    by Bruce G. Trigger ...
    In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Theory of Ecological Communities

    by Mark Vellend ...
    Series Book 57 - Monographs in Population Biology
    A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of community ecology—understanding patterns of diversity and composition of biological variants across space ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Foundations of Ecology

    Classic Papers with Commentaries

    Edited by Leslie A. Real, James H. Brown ...
    Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today.The papers span nearly nine decades of ... Read more

    $35.29 USD