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by R. Lee Lyman; Michael J. O'Brien

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Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes in artifacts, sites, and peoples over time.

In highlighting the underpinning ontology and epistemology of artifact-based chronometers--cultural transmission and how to measure it archaeologically--this volume covers issues such as why archaeologists used the cultural evolutionism of L. H. Morgan, E. B. Tylor, L. A. White, and others instead of biological evolutionism; why artifact classification played a critical role in the adoption of stratigraphic excavation; how the direct historical approach accomplished three analytical tasks at once; why cultural traits were important analytical units; why paleontological and archaeological methods sometimes mirror one another; how artifact classification influences chronometric method; and how graphs illustrate change in artifacts over time.

An understanding of the history of artifact-based chronometers enables us to understand how we know what we think we know about the past, ensures against modern misapplication of the methods, and sheds light on the reasoning behind archaeologists' actions during the first half of the twentieth century.

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  • Title Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology
  • Author R. Lee Lyman; Michael J. O'Brien
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication date 2006-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780803229662 / 0803229666
  • Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Antiquities, Time measurements
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005026723
  • Dewey Decimal Code 930.107

About the author

R. Lee Lyman is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Michael J. O'Brien is a professor of anthropology and an associate dean in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Lyman and O'Brien are the coauthors of Archaeology as a Process: Processualism and Its Progeny and Cladistics and Archaeology, among other books.
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