R. Lee Lyman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. He is author of Vertebrate Taphonomy (1994), Quantitative Paleozoology (2008), Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America (2016), Graphing Culture Change in North American Archaeology: A History of Graph Types (2021), and co-author of Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, and Techniques (2019). His research interests include zooarchaeology, the history of archaeology, and conservation paleozoology.

With characteristic rigor and thoroughness, R. Lee Lyman examines the shifting meanings of concepts archaeologists work with every day. Much more than a dictionary, this book examines the evolution of, and ongoing uncertainties about, the basic ideas that underpin our discipline.

• PrefacePart I. Why a Book on Archaeological Concepts?IntroductionPart II. The Fundamental ConceptsA. Activity areaB. Archaeological cultureC. ArtifactD. AssemblageE. AssociationF. CacheG. ComponentH. ContextI. Cultural processJ. EcofactK. FeatureL. HorizonM. In situN. IndustryO. ManuportP. Material cultureQ. Mental templateR. MiddenS. PeriodT. PhaseU. ProvenienceV. SiteW. Site structureX. StageY. Tool kitZ. TraditionAA. Type/index fossilAppendix 1. List of introductory archaeology textbooks surveyed.Appendix 2. List of dictionaries and encyclopedias surveyed. Appendix 3. Early archaeological literature examined for occurrence of terms used.

R. Lee Lyman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. He is author of Vertebrate Taphonomy (1994), Quantitative Paleozoology (2008), Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America (2016), Graphing Culture Change in North American Archaeology: A History of Graph Types (2021), and co-author of Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, and Techniques (2019). His research interests include zooarchaeology, the history of archaeology, and conservation paleozoology.

With characteristic rigor and thoroughness, R. Lee Lyman examines the shifting meanings of concepts archaeologists work with every day. Much more than a dictionary, this book examines the evolution of, and ongoing uncertainties about, the basic ideas that underpin our discipline.

• PrefacePart I. Why a Book on Archaeological Concepts?IntroductionPart II. The Fundamental ConceptsA. Activity areaB. Archaeological cultureC. ArtifactD. AssemblageE. AssociationF. CacheG. ComponentH. ContextI. Cultural processJ. EcofactK. FeatureL. HorizonM. In situN. IndustryO. ManuportP. Material cultureQ. Mental templateR. MiddenS. PeriodT. PhaseU. ProvenienceV. SiteW. Site structureX. StageY. Tool kitZ. TraditionAA. Type/index fossilAppendix 1. List of introductory archaeology textbooks surveyed.Appendix 2. List of dictionaries and encyclopedias surveyed. Appendix 3. Early archaeological literature examined for occurrence of terms used.

R. Lee Lyman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. He is author of Vertebrate Taphonomy (1994), Quantitative Paleozoology (2008), Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America (2016), Graphing Culture Change in North American Archaeology: A History of Graph Types (2021), and co-author of Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, and Techniques (2019). His research interests include zooarchaeology, the history of archaeology, and conservation paleozoology.

With characteristic rigor and thoroughness, R. Lee Lyman examines the shifting meanings of concepts archaeologists work with every day. Much more than a dictionary, this book examines the evolution of, and ongoing uncertainties about, the basic ideas that underpin our discipline.

• PrefacePart I. Why a Book on Archaeological Concepts?IntroductionPart II. The Fundamental ConceptsA. Activity areaB. Archaeological cultureC. ArtifactD. AssemblageE. AssociationF. CacheG. ComponentH. ContextI. Cultural processJ. EcofactK. FeatureL. HorizonM. In situN. IndustryO. ManuportP. Material cultureQ. Mental templateR. MiddenS. PeriodT. PhaseU. ProvenienceV. SiteW. Site structureX. StageY. Tool kitZ. TraditionAA. Type/index fossilAppendix 1. List of introductory archaeology textbooks surveyed.Appendix 2. List of dictionaries and encyclopedias surveyed. Appendix 3. Early archaeological literature examined for occurrence of terms used.