Constructing Frames of Reference : An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets

Binford, Lewis R.

University of California Press（2001/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 583 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520223936
• DDC分類 930.1

Full Description

Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the 'New Archaeology' changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise. This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called 'ethnoarchaeology' - the study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological record - and this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations.
The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.