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Archaeology on the Threshold - Studies in the Processes of Change (Hardcover)
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Archaeology on the Threshold - Studies in the Processes of Change (Hardcover)
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New perspectives on transitions in human history This book is about
transitional periods of cultural and environmental change as seen
through the lenses of archaeology and ethnography. Incorporating
data from across six continents and tracing the human experience
from the Late Pleistocene to the present, this book offers a global
comparative perspective on transitional states. Questions of
causality are considered, as are hypotheses about the processes of
cultural change. Archaeology on the Threshold focuses on major
transitions such as the shift from foraging to agriculture, the
adoption of new technologies, the emergence of large-scale
societies, the transition from egalitarian to inegalitarian
leadership, and changes that occur in socioeconomic and ideological
systems as a result of climate change and disease. Theoretical
approaches range from processual to postprocessual, humanistic, and
interpretive. Methodologies include ethnoarchaeology, the use of
ethnographic analogy, crosscultural comparisons and large-scale
data approaches, oral history, the historical record, participant
observation, and focus group discussions. Challenging
archaeologists to query long-held assumptions and theoretical
positions, this volume aims to refocus inquiry into change-causing
and larger evolutionary processes to problematize notions of
revolutionary, irrevocable change. These case studies examine and
shed light on assumptions regarding the linearity and oscillations
of adaptations, with intriguing implications for archaeological
inferences.
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