Overview

Americanist Culture History reprints thirty-nine classic works of Americanist archaeological literature published between 1907 and 1971. The articles, in which the key concepts and analytical techniques of culture history were first defined and discussed, are reprinted, with original pagination and references, to enhance the use of this collection as a research and teaching resource. The editors also include an introduction that summarizes the rise and fall of the culture history paradigm, making this volume an excellent introduction to the field's primary literature.

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Author:   R. Lee Lyman ,  Michael J. O'Brien ,  Robert C. Dunnell
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1997 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.030kg
ISBN:  

9780306455407

ISBN 10:   0306455404
Pages:   499
Publication Date:   31 July 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

From The Emeryville Shellmound.- Report of the Committee on Archeological Nomenclature.- Archaeological Investigations in the Valley of Mexico by the International School, 1911–12.- From Areas of American Culture Characterization Tentatively Outlined as an Aid in the Study of Antiquities.- Chronology of the Tano Ruins, New Mexico.- Zuñi Culture Sequences.- From An Outline for a Chronology of Zuñi Ruins.- A Design-Sequence from New Mexico.- From Notes on the Pottery of Pecos.- Diffusion and Independent Invention: A Critique of Logic.- The Culture-Area and Age-Area Concepts of Clark Wissler.- Editorials: Methodology in the Southwest.- From Analysis of Village Site Collections from Louisiana and Mississippi.- A Chronological Method Applicable to the Southeast.- Report of the Conference on Southeastern Pottery Typology.- From Handbook of Northern Arizona Pottery Wares.- From Prehistory in Haiti, A Study in Method.- The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an Aid to Archaeological Culture Study.- Statistical Classification.- The Typological Concept.- From The Archaeology of Alkali Ridge, Southeastern Utah.- From Cultural Dating of Prehistoric Sites in Virú Valley, Peru.- The Place of Chronological Ordering in Archaeological Analysis.- From Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1940–1947.- From Measurements of Some Prehistoric Design Developments in the Southeastern States.- Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types.- Comment on A. C. Spaulding’s “Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types”.- Reply to Ford.- The Type Concept Revisited.- Method and Theory in American Archeology: An Operational Basis for Culture-Historical Integration.- On the Correlation of Phases of Culture.- From An Archaeological Approach to the Studyof Cultural Stability.- Ceramic Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in Southwestern Pottery Analysis.- The Classification of Artifacts in Archaeology.- The Use of Typology in Anthropological Theory.- Stratigraphy and Seriation.- The Doppler Effect and Archaeology: A Consideration of the Spatial Aspects of Seriation.- The Importance of Both Analytic and Taxonomic Classification in the Type-Variety System.- Sabloff and Smith’s “The Importance of Both Analytic and Taxonomic Classification in the Type-Variety System”.

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...should also play a significant role in reminding current archaeologists of the forgotten and unappreciated complexities of the Americanist cultural historical paradigm as it developed during the first 60 or so years of the 20th century. The Rise and Fall of Culture History and Americanist Culture: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form together form the most comprehensive and focused commentary on theoretical developments in American archaeology between 1900 and 1960.' North American Archaeologist, 22: 4 (2001)

'...should also play a significant role in reminding current archaeologists of the forgotten and unappreciated complexities of the Americanist cultural historical paradigm as it developed during the first 60 or so years of the 20th century. The Rise and Fall of Culture History and Americanist Culture: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form together form the most comprehensive and focused commentary on theoretical developments in American archaeology between 1900 and 1960.' North American Archaeologist, 22:4 (2001)

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