Cladistics is a method used in biology and paleobiology to establish phylogeny: what produced what and in what order. It is a very specific method, developed in Germany in the 1950s and currently the primary phylogenetic method in the world. Cladistics has also been applied to such fields as historical linguistics and manuscript history. If things evolve in a nonrandom way, they may be appropriately studied using this method.
In "Cladistics and Archaeology," Michael O Brien and Lee Lyman explore the application of cladistics to archaeology by considering artifacts as human phenotypic...
Cladistics is a method used in biology and paleobiology to establish phylogeny: what produced what and in what order. It is a very specific method,...
One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through history. Recognising that diversity exists is not, however, to explain it nor to measure it effectively. The aim of the contributors to Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology is therefore to examine what we mean by diversity, to review the methods of measurement and formulae we an apply and assess the pitfalls that exist. Richness and evenness, the two main components of diversity measures developed in the biological sciences are considered, as are...
One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through hi...
