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Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter-Gatherer and Enviromental Data Sets

Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter-Gatherer and Enviromental Data Sets

Binford, Lewis R.

Hardcover

AnthropologyArchaeology

ISBN10: 0520223934
ISBN13: 9780520223936
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jun 16 2001
Pages: 583
Weight: 4.04
Height: 1.78 Width: 8.98 Depth: 11.28
Language: English
Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the New Archaeology changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise.

This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called ethnoarchaeology--the study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological record--and this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations. The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.

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