Debating Archaeology: Updated Edition

by Binford,Lewis R

• ISBN13: 9781598744552
• ISBN10: 1598744550
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this volume, the founder of processual archaeology, Lewis R. Binford collects and comments on the twenty-eight substantive papers published in the 1980's, the third in his set of collected papers (also Working at Archaeology and An Archaeological Perspective). This ongoing collection of self-edited papers, together with the extensive and very candid interstitial commentaries, provides an invaluable record of the development of "The New Archaeology" and a challenging view into the mind of the man who is certainly the most creative archaeological theorist of our time.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. xi
Preface to the Updated Paperback Edition (2009)	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction
"Culture" and Social Roles in Archaeology	p. 3
The New Archaeology, Then and Now	p. 12
Much Ado About Nothing
Science to Seance, or Processual to "Post-Processual" Archaeology (1988)	p. 27
In Pursuit of the Future (1986)	p. 41
Data, Relativism, and Archaeological Science (1987)	p. 55
Review of Hodder, Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology	p. 69
Empiricism and Other Problems in Contemporary Archaeology
Coping with Debate Tactics	p. 75
Reply to "More on the Mousterian: Flaked Bone from Cueva Marin," by L. Freeman (1983)	p. 80
Brand X versus the Recommended Product (1985)	p. 89
"Righteous Rocks" and Richard Gould: Some Observations on Misguided Debate (with Nancy M. Stone) (1985)	p. 102
Richard Gould Revisited, or Bringing Back the "Bacon"	p. 106
An Alyawara Day: The Stone Quarry (with James F. O'Connell) (1984)	p. 121
An Alyawara Day: Flour, Spinifex Gum, and Shifting Perspectives (1984)	p. 147
An Alyawara Day: Making Men's Knives and Beyond (1986)	p. 172
Butchering, Sharing, and the Archaeological Record (1984)	p. 190
Styles of Style (1989)	p. 209
Researching Ambiguity: Frames of Reference and Site Structure (1987)	p. 223
Models and Accommodating Arguments versus Pattern Recognition: What Drives Research Best?
Multidimensional Analysis of Sheep and Goats: Baa-ck and Forth	p. 267
The Hunting Hypothesis, Archaeological Methods, and the Past (1988)	p. 282
Letter to H. T. Bunn	p. 291
Bones of Contention: A Reply to Glynn Isaac (1984)	p. 297
Human Ancestors: Changing Views of Their Behavior (1985)	p. 301
Fact and Fiction about the Zinjanthropus Floor: Data, Arguments, and Interpretations (1988)	p. 329
Hyena Scavenging Behavior and Its Implications for the Interpretation of Faunal Assemblages from FLK 22 (the Zinj Floor) at Olduvai Gorge (with M. G. L. Mills and Nancy M. Stone) (1988)	p. 352
Were There Elephant Hunters at Torralba? (1987)	p. 383
Searching for Camps and Missing the Evidence? Another Look at the Lower Paleolithic (1987)	p. 423
Technology of Early Man: An Organizational Approach to the Oldowan	p. 437
Isolating the Transition to Cultural Adaptations: An Organizational Approach (1988)	p. 464
Coping with Culture	p. 485
References	p. 491
Index	p. 521
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