Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 347 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Studies in archaeology |
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Studies in archaeology
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Contents |
Archaeology's relationship to the present and the past / Mark P. Leone -- The modern-culture field school : teaching archaeology on the university campus / Richard Wilk and Michael B. Schiffer -- The use of material culture in diachronic anthropology / Jeffrey L. Eighmy -- A manifesto for modern material-culture studies / William L. Rathje -- Waste not, want not : an ethnoarchaeological study of reuse in Tucson, Arizona / Michael B. Schiffer, Theodore E. Downing, and Michael McCarthy -- Graffiti and racial insults : the archaeology of ethnic relations in Hawaii / C. Fred Blake -- A herbalist's shop in Honolulu : traditional merchandising in a modern setting / Jane Allen-Wheeler -- Ideology and material culture / David J. Meltzer -- Don't fence me in / Patricia Price-Beggerly -- The cemetery and culture change : archaeological focus and ethnographic perspective / Edwin S. Dethlefsen -- Pennies from Denver / Nan A. Rothschild -- The raw and the cooked : the material culture of a modern supermarket / Joyce E. Bath -- The community store : a dispersal center for material goods in rural America / Paul L. Cleghorn |
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A microarchaeological view of human settlement space and function / Alice W. Portnoy -- The archaeological significance of counting houses : ethnoarchaeological evidence / Jeffrey L. Eighmy -- Experimentation with modern materials / Cheryl P. Claassen -- A simulative experiment in simple product manufacture / Charles M. Baker -- Cumulative graphs and seriation / Daniel W. Ingersoll, Jr. -- Brandon revisited : a new look at an old technology / Richard A. Gould -- Making stone vases : contemporary manufacture of material-culture items in upper Egypt / Thomas R. Hester and Robert F. Heizer -- A study of the work of a modern tanner in Ethiopia and its relevance for archaeological interpretation / J. Desmond Clark and Hiro Kurashina |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-342) and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record |
Subject |
Material culture -- United States
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Archaeology -- Philosophy
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Archaeology -- Methodology
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Industries -- United States
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Antiquities
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Gould, Richard A
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Schiffer, Michael B
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ScienceDirect (Online service)
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ISBN |
9781483299204 (electronic bk.) |
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1483299201 (electronic bk.) |
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