Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential
figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions
to the "New Archaeology" changed the course of the field, as he
argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework
to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological
record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy
thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and
its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a
global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step
in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will
change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise.
This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of
cultural and environmental information and offers many original
insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called
"ethnoarchaeology"--the study of living societies to help explain
cultural patterns in the archaeological record--and this book is
grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340
historically known hunter-gatherer populations. The methodological
framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through
which we understand human culture for years to come.
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