Böcker av Robert C. Dunnell

In this volume, 14 scholars examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research addressing diverse topics including the distribution of artefacts across the landscape, internal configurations of large fortified settlements, human-bone chemistry and ceramic technology.

Serves as a resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky. This title examines the matters of method and theory, the application of materials science, geophysics, and other tools in archaeology that provide for better data-recovery.

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.