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The Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective
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Product Description
Using a broad comparative approach this volume employs case studies from across the Americas to address the importance of the community in understanding ancient societies.
Product Details
- Published on: 2000-07-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"These 13 essays are about the concept of community and how it can be used to explain patterns of material culture found in archaeology sites. Each essay is written by a different author or set of authors. The editors begin with an introductory chapter providing an overview of how archaeologists have used the term "community." The next ten chapters are studies that apply the term to archaeology cases. While the New World is the area of focus, the case studies are fairly comprehensive in coverage.."
-G.B. Osborne," Augustana University College, CHOICE June 2001
From the Back Cover
Using a broad comparative approach combined with a refreshing theoretical diversity, this volume employs a wide range of case studies to address the importance of the community (as opposed to the individual household, or the larger polity) in understanding ancient societies.
There is explicit discussion of different ways of defining the community in the archaeological record, and social issues of identity and interaction are stressesd The volume also examines whether a universal, cross-culturally applicable notion of community is useful or even possible.
About the Author
Mary Lee Bartlett, Museum of Texas Tech University, USA, Marcello A. Canuto, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Paul S. Goldstein, Dartmouth College, USA, Timothy S. Hare, University at Albany, USA, Julia A. Hendon, Gettysburg College, USA, Audrey J. Horning, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, USA, William H. Isbell, State University of New York at Binghampton, USA, Rosemary A. Joyce, University of California, USA, Patricia A. McAnany, Boston University, USA, Joyce Marcus, University of Michigan, USA, Mark W. Mehrer, Northern Illinois University, USA, Timothy R. Pauketat, University of Illinois, USA, Robert W. Preucel, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Jason Yaeger, University of Pennsylvania, James A. Zeidler, Colorado State University, USA
