ISBN:
9780387327723
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (289 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Confronting Scale in Archaeology : An Integration of Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
DDC:
302.14
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Brings together leading researchers in sociology and psychology to explain human egotism and altruism using not only their area of study but also bringing in research from economics and biology. This book is a response to the quandary. It presents an account of solidarity and prosocial behavior
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Confronting Scale; On Being the Right Size: Affordances and the Meaning of Scale; Timescales; Scale as Artifact: GIS, Ecological Fallacy, and Archaeological Analysis; Artifacts as Social Interference: The Politics of Spatial Scale; Topographical Scale as Ideological and Practical Affordance: The Case of Devils Tower; Perspective Matters: Traversing Scale through Archaeological Practice; Artifacts as Landscapes: A Use-Wear Case Study of Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at the Solutré Kill Site, France; Scale and Archaeological Evaluations: What are We Looking For?
Description / Table of Contents:
Scale, Model Complexity, and Understanding: Simulation of Settlement Processes in the Glenwood Locality of Southwestern Iowa, 1976 and 2000Scale and Its Effects on Understanding Regional Behavioural Systems: An Australian Case Study; Custer's Last Battle: Struggling with Scale; Temporal Scales and Archaeological Landscapes from the Eastern Desert of Australia and Intermontane North America; Large Scale, Long Duration and Broad Perceptions: Scale Issues in Historic Landscape Characterisation; Multiscalar Approaches to Settlement Pattern Analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Grain, Extent, and Intensity: The Components of Scale in Archaeological SurveyPersons and Landscapes: Shifting Scales of Landscape Archaeology;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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