Confronting Scale in Archaeology Issues of Theory and Practice /

Without realizing, most archaeologists shift within a scale of interpretation of material culture. Material data is interpreted from the scale of an individual in a specific place and time and then shifts to the complex dynamics of cultural groups extending over time and space. This ignoring of scal...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lock, Gary (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Molyneaux, Brian Leigh (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction: Confronting Scale
  • Introduction: Confronting Scale
  • Introducing Scale: Space, Time and Size in The Past and the Present
  • On Being the Right Size: Affordances and the Meaning of Scale
  • Timescales
  • Scale as Artifact: GIS, Ecological Fallacy, and Archaeological Analysis
  • Artifacts as Social Interference: The Politics of Spatial Scale
  • Constructing Scale: Identifying Problems
  • Topographical Scale as Ideological and Practical Affordance: The Case of Devils Tower
  • Perspective Matters: Traversing Scale through Archaeological Practice
  • Artifacts as Landscapes: A Use-Wear Case Study of Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at the Solutré Kill Site, France
  • Scale and Archaeological Evaluations: What are We Looking For?
  • Scale, Model Complexity, and Understanding: Simulation of Settlement Processes in the Glenwood Locality of Southwestern Iowa, 1976 and 2000
  • Scale and Its Effects on Understanding Regional Behavioural Systems: An Australian Case Study
  • Custer’s Last Battle: Struggling with Scale
  • Interpreting Scale: Towards New Methodologies and Understandings
  • Temporal Scales and Archaeological Landscapes from the Eastern Desert of Australia and Intermontane North America
  • Large Scale, Long Duration and Broad Perceptions: Scale Issues in Historic Landscape Characterisation
  • Multiscalar Approaches to Settlement Pattern Analysis
  • Grain, Extent, and Intensity: The Components of Scale in Archaeological Survey
  • Persons and Landscapes: Shifting Scales of Landscape Archaeology.