Behavioral Archaeology

Michael Schiffer is professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.

List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. A Personal History of Behavioral Archaeology 2. Archaeological Context and Systemic Context 3. A Synthetic Model of Archaeological Inference 4. Archaeology as Behavioral Science 5. Behavioral Chain Analysis 6. The Four Strategies of Behavioral Archaeology (with contributions by J. Jefferson Reid and William L. Rathje) 7. Some Further Comments on the Dalton Settlement Pattern Hypothesis 8. Archaeology Research and Contract Archaeology 9. Methodological Issues in Ethnoarchaeology 10. Waste Not, Want Not: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Reuse Processes in Tucson, Arizona (with Theodore E. Downing and Michael McCarthy) 11. The Place of Lithic Use-Wear Studies in Behavioral Archaeology 12. A Preliminary Consideration of Behavioral Change 13. On Lewis R. Binford's For Theory Building in Archaeology 14. Problems of Confirmation of Ethnoarchaeology 15. Some Fundamental Correlates (with William L. Rathje) 16. Hohokam Chronology 17. On Marvin Harris's Cultural Materialism 18. Toward the Identification of Formation Processes 19. On Lewis R. Binford's Working at Archaeology 20. Is There a \u0022Pompeii Premise\u0022 in Archaeology? 21. The Ceramics of Broken K Pueblo: A Reanalysis 22. Theory and Experiment in the Study of Technological Change (with James K. Skibo) 23. The Conceptual Structure of Behavioral Archaeology References Index