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I'll Have What She's Having
Av Michael J. O'Brien, Mark Earls m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
319 kr
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How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave. Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I''ll Have What She''s Having , shapes—and explains—most of our choices. We''re not just blindly driven by hard-wired …
Acceleration of Cultural Change
Av Michael J. O'Brien, R. Alexander Bentley
E-bok, 2017
301 kr
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How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors. From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from …
Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology
Av Metin I. Eren, Briggs Buchanan m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
601 kr
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Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the …
Importance of Small Decisions
Av William A. Brock, R. Alexander Bentley m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
292 kr
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How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news. Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today''s all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely …
Acceleration of Cultural Change
From Ancestors to Algorithms
Av R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O'Brien
Häftad, 2024
378 kr
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Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology
Av Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
741 kr
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I'll Have What She's Having
Mapping Social Behavior
Av R. Alexander Bentley, Mark Earls m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
436 kr
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Rise and Fall of Culture History
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1130 kr
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VJver forty years ago Gordon R. Willey (1953b:361) stated that "[t]he objectives of archeology ...are approached by the study and manipulation of three basic factors: form, space, and time. " A few years later, Albert C. Spaulding (1960b:439) repeated this thought using different words: …
Rise and Fall of Culture History
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
1130 kr
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VJver forty years ago Gordon R. Willey (1953b:361) stated that "[t]he objectives of archeology ...are approached by the study and manipulation of three basic factors: form, space, and time. " A few years later, Albert C. Spaulding (1960b:439) repeated this thought using different words: …
Americanist Culture History
Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
569 kr
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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 …
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils
The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
Av Michael J. O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine the …
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology
A Systematic Approach
Av Michael J. O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman
Inbunden, 2000
1692 kr
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Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere …
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology
A Systematic Approach
Av Michael J. O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman
Häftad, 2000
1692 kr
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Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere …
Mississippian Community Organization
The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri
Inbunden, 2001
1130 kr
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The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The project focused on the occupation of a large Pleistocene-age terrace in the Little Black River Lowland—a large expanse of lowlying …
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils
The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien
E-bok, 2007
1502 kr
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It is difficult for today''s students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine …
Mississippian Community Organization
The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri
E-bok, 2005
1502 kr
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The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The project focused on the occupation of a large Pleistocene-age terrace in the Little Black River Lowland—a large expanse of lowlying …
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology
A Systematic Approach
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien
E-bok, 2007
2127 kr
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Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere …
Rise and Fall of Culture History
Av Robert C. Dunnell, Michael J. O'Brien m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
1470 kr
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Measuring Time with Artifacts
A History of Methods in American Archaeology
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien
Inbunden, 2006
764 kr
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Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes …
Measuring Time with Artifacts
A History of Methods in American Archaeology
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien
Häftad, 2006
342 kr
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Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes …
Hidden Phase of American History
Ireland's Part in America's Struggle for Liberty.]cillustrated by Ports. from the Emmet Collection, Facsims. of Docu
Häftad, 2014
655 kr
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Socratic Paradoxes and the Greek Mind
Häftad, 2012
572 kr
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In assessing what the paradoxes meant to Plato, O'Brien uses certain broad principles of inquiry. First, he insists, any platonic doctrine must be placed in the context of Plato's whole philosophy--a truism not always honored. Second, the conversations of the dialogue form do not merely embellish …
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
Av Gordon R. Willey, Philip Phillips m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
454 kr
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In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology - a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual archaeology, according to Willey …
W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method
Av R. Lee Lyman, Michael J. O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
454 kr
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This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.
Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
Av Robert C. Dunnell, Michael J. O'Brien
E-bok, 2011
975 kr
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Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely …
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
Av Philip Phillips, Gordon R. Willey m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
780 kr
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A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This invaluable classic provides the framework for the development of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century. In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology —a volume that went through …
