Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology
Author:   R. Lee Lyman ,  Michael J. O'Brien
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
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Pages:   348
Publication Date:   01 June 2006
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Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology


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Author:   R. Lee Lyman ,  Michael J. O'Brien
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780803229662


ISBN 10:   0803229666
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   01 June 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Introduction; Ontology 2. The Concept of Evolution in Early Twentieth-Century American Archaeology The Epistemology of Measurement Units 3. Cultural Traits as Units of Analysis in Early Twentieth-Century Anthropology; 4. Chronometers and Units in Early Archaeology and Paleontology; 5. A. L. Kroeber and the Measurement of Time's Arrow and Time's Cycle; 6. Time, Space, and Marker Types in James Ford's 1936 Chronology for the Lower Mississippi Valley The Epistemology of Chronometers 7. The Direct Historical Approach; 8. American Stratigraphic Excavation; 9. Graphic Depictions of Culture Change; 10. Artifact Classification and Artifact-Based Chronometry

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R. Lee Lyman is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Michael J. O'Brien is a professor of anthropology and an associate dean in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Lyman and O'Brien are the coauthors of Archaeology as a Process: Processualism and Its Progeny and Cladistics and Archaeology, among other books.

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