Pattern of the Past: Studies in the Honour of David Clarke

by Edited by Ian Hodder , Glynn Isaac , Norman Hammond

• ISBN13: 9780521108430
• ISBN10: 0521108438
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

David Clarke was until his death in 1976 'the acknowledged leader in Britain of the 'new wave' of archaeological thinking'. His work concentrated on the establishment of explicit theory and logic in archaeological method and the contributions to this volume demonstrate how vital was his inspiration and reflect its diversity. The contributors follow his lead in searching for ways of discovering and interpreting patterns, including spatial, economic and social patterns in the archaeological record of past human life. The studies in this book were all commissioned and have not appeared elsewhere. The book will be of importance for archaeologists and of interest to anthropologists and those concerned with the general methodology of the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: towards a mature archaeology

Ethnographic models: pre-depositional theory

Anthropological models in archaeological perspective

Kalinga pottery: an ethnoarchaeological study

Society, economy and culture: an ethnographic case study amongst the Lozi

People and space: a case study on material behaviour

Settlement Pattern: despositional, post-depositional and analytical theory

Stone Age visiting cards: approaches to the study of early land use patterns

Off-site archaeology: an alternative approach for the short-sited

Black holes in British prehistory: the analysis of settlement distributions

The colonisation of Europe: the analysis of settlement processes

Subsistence Pattern: analytical and interpretive theory

Population, resources and explanation in prehistory

Plough and pastoralism: aspects of the secondary products revolution

Counting sheep in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece

The effects of environmental change on the scheduling of visits to the Elands Bay Cave, Cape Province

Social Pattern: analytical and interpretive theory

Conceptual frameworks for the explanation of sociocultural change

Archaeological theory and communal burial in prehistoric

Towards a socioeconomic model for the Middle Bronze Age in southern England

Index

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