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The Quality of the Archaeological Record (Hardcover)
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The Quality of the Archaeological Record (Hardcover)
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Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding
of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a
focus on microevolution and an incredibly patchy fossil record. But
in the 1970s, the field took a radical turn, as paleobiologists
began to investigate processes that could only be recognized in the
fossil record across larger scales of time and space. That turn led
to a new wave of macroevolutionary investigations, novel insights
into the evolution of species, and a growing prominence for the
field among the biological sciences. In The Quality of the
Archaeological Record, Charles Perreault shows that archaeology not
only faces a parallel problem, but may also find a model in the
rise of paleobiology for a shift in the science and theory of the
field. To get there, he proposes a more macroscale approach to
making sense of the archaeological record, an approach that reveals
patterns and processes not visible within the span of a human
lifetime, but rather across an observation window thousands of
years long and thousands of kilometers wide. Just as with the
fossil record, the archaeological record has the scope necessary to
detect macroscale cultural phenomena because it can provide samples
that are large enough to cancel out the noise generated by
micro-scale events. By recalibrating their research to the quality
of the archaeological record and developing a true macroarchaeology
program, Perreault argues, archaeologists can finally unleash the
full contributive value of their discipline.
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