Bøger af R. Lee Lyman
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495,95 - 731,95 kr. Quantitative Paleozoology describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed. The methods range from determining how many animals of each species are represented to determining whether one collection consists of more broken and more burned bones than another. All methods are described and illustrated with data from real collections, while numerous graphs illustrate various quantitative properties.
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- 495,95 kr.
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- A History of Methods in American Archaeology
418,95 - 659,95 kr. Combining historical research with an explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, this work examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures. It also analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes in artefacts, sites, and people over time.
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- 418,95 kr.
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560,95 kr. Illuminates the career of Theodore E. White and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. R. Lee Lyman works to fill gaps in the historical record and revisits some of White's analytical innovations from a modern perspective.
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- 560,95 kr.
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- The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
1.072,95 kr. Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the methods described, both in terms of analytical technique and disciplinary history.
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- 1.072,95 kr.
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1.102,95 - 1.121,95 kr. Presents a critical analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. This work uses a framework for the analysis that is founded on the contrast between two metaphysics used by evolutionary biologists in discussing their own discipline: materialistic/populational thinking and essentialistic/typological thinking.
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- 1.102,95 kr.
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- The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
1.119,95 kr. Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the methods described, both in terms of analytical technique and disciplinary history.
- Bog
- 1.119,95 kr.