Warfare is a constant in human history. According to the contributors to this volume, archaeologists have assumed that--within certain socioenvironmental parameters--war is always essentially the same phenomenon and follows a common logic, breaking out under similar conditions and having analogous effects on the people involved. In pursuit of this idea, archaeologists have built models to account for the occurrence of war in various times and places. The models are then tested against prehistoric evidence to make the causes and conduct of war predictable and data-based. However,...
Warfare is a constant in human history. According to the contributors to this volume, archaeologists have assumed that--within certain socioenvironmen...
Behavioral archaeology, defined as the study of people-object interactions in all times and places, emerged in the 1970s, in large part because of the innovative work of Michael Schiffer and colleagues. This volume provides an overview of how behavioral archaeology has evolved and how it has affected the field of archaeology at large.
The contributors to this volume are Schiffer s former students, from his first doctoral student to his most recent. This generational span has allowed for chapters that reflect Schiffer s research from the 1970s to 2012. They are iconoclastic and creative...
Behavioral archaeology, defined as the study of people-object interactions in all times and places, emerged in the 1970s, in large part because of ...
