Confronting Scale in Archaeology Issues of Theory and Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lock, Gary (Editor), Molyneaux, Brian Leigh (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

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...