Archaeological thought in America

Abstract

List of illustrations Introduction C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Part I. History, Method and Theory: 1. History and contemporary American archaeology: a critical analysis Bruce G. Trigger 2. Aspects of the application of evolutionary theory in archaeology Robert C. Dunnell 3. The 'New Archaeology', then and now Lewis R, Binford 4. Marxism in American archaeology Antonio Gilman 5. Formal approaches in archaeology George L. Cowgill 6. Ideology and evolutionism in American archaeology: looking beyond the economic base Arthur A. Demarest 7. The present and the future of hunter-gatherers studies John E. Yellen 8. Paleopathology and the interpretation of economic change in prehistory Mark C. Cohen Part II. Archaeology in the Americas and Beyond: 9. The structural analysis of Paleolithic art Margaret W. Conkey 10. Ancient China and its anthropological significance Kwang-Chih Chang 11. Settlement pattern studies and evidences for intensive agriculture in the Maya Lowlands Gordon R. Willey 12. The political economy of the Inka empire: the archaeology of power and finance Timothy K. Early and Terence N. D'Altroy 13. An epigenetic view of the Harappan culture W. A. Fairservis 14. The use and abuse of world systems theory: the case of the 'pristine' West Asian state Philip L. Kohl 15. Mesopotamia, Central Asia and the Indus Valley: so the Kings were killed C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky 16. New tracks on ancient frontiers: ceramic technology on the Indo-Iranian Borderlands Rita P. Wright 17. Pastoralism and the early state in Greater Mesopotamia Allen Zagarell References Index.