Applying Evolutionary Archaeology A Systematic Approach /

• Main Authors: OỚ"Brien, Michael J. (Author), Lyman, R. Lee. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Paleontology.; Sedimentology.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere in...

Table of Contents:

• Darwinian Theory and Archaeology
• Two Kinds of Science
• The Materialist Paradox in Archaeology
• The Place of History in Modern Paleobiology and Archaeology
• Archaeological Units and Their Construction
• Building and Testing Historical Lineages
• Tempo and Mode in Evolution
• Explaining Lineage Histories
• Evolutionary Archaeology.