Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology write by Metin I. Eren. This book was released on 2022-07-18. Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Understanding archaeological diversity is key to understanding human culture in the past. Archaeologists have long experienced a tenuous relationship with statistics; however, the regular integration of diversity measures and concepts into archaeological practice is becoming increasingly important. This volume includes chapters that cover a wide range of archaeological applications of diversity measures. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.
Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology
Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology write by Robert D. Leonard. This book was released on 1989-04-25. Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology aims to examine what we mean by diversity.
Measurement and Meaning of Archaeological Diversity
Measurement and Meaning of Archaeological Diversity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Measurement and Meaning of Archaeological Diversity write by Virginia Marie Betz. This book was released on 1987. Measurement and Meaning of Archaeological Diversity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Archaeologists use diversity as one way of characterizing their assemblages. Diversity refers to both the number of artifact classes present (richness) and the proportional representation of classes (evenness). Numerical diversity indices measure one or both components. Archaeologists use assemblage diversity to infer behavior of prehistoric cultures. Archaeological inferences about behavior occur at two levels of analysis: (1) micro-scale analyses in which diversity is an attribute of artifactual assemblages, and (2) macro-scale analyses in which diversity is an attribute of the culture. This study evaluates theories used to justify behavioral inferences based on macro-level diversity of material culture. Assumptions about behavior made on the basis of the diversity of archaeological assemblages are compared with information about behavioral diversity drawn from ethnographic sources. The ethnographic analysis considers four macro-scale models that establish archaeological correlates for systemic cultural behaviors. All the models infer behavioral diversity from artifactual diversity. They are: (1) a group size model that relates artifactual diversity to population density, (2) a niche width model that relates archaeological diversity to subsistence practices, (3) a complexity model that relates archaeological diversity to social organization, and (4) a stress-response model that relates archaeological diversity to systemic perturbation. Four behavioral variables from the Human Relations Area Files Standard Cross-Cultural Sample are recoded to represent each behavioral diversity model. The results of a rank-order correlation procedure indicate that the behaviors associated with group size, niche width, complexity, and stress-response basically occur independently of one another in culture groups. This finding validates the archaeological approach which uses functionally-specific systemic behavior sets. Archaeological sites often do not yield the artifactual and contextual data to use behavioral models. The generalized diversity of artifactual forms is interpreted therefore as diversity of many behavioral responses. A general diversity variable (the sum of the four individual behavioral variables) produces the list of sample cultures ranked by generalized diversity. Because the diversity concept is not drawn from anthropological theory, archaeologists frequently interpret generalized diversity in terms of ecological or evolutionary models. The data show that biological models of diversity do not explain the general diversity rankings. The direct analogic application of theoretical biological diversity models to explain behavioral diversity needs reassessment in terms of ethnographic observations. Archaeologists should work towards building a distinctly anthropological theory which accommodates a generalized concept of behavioral diversity.
Unit Issues in Archaeology
Unit Issues in Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unit Issues in Archaeology write by Ann Felice Ramenofsky. This book was released on 1998. Unit Issues in Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume emphasizes one aspect of scientific method: units of measure and their construction as applied to archaeology. Attributes, artifact classes, locational designations, temporal periods, sampling universes, culture stages, and geographic regions are all examples of constructed units.
Diversity in Archaeology
Diversity in Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diversity in Archaeology write by Elifgül Doğan. This book was released on 2022-09-01. Diversity in Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 30 papers explore a wide range of topics such as women’s voices in archaeological discourse; researching race and ethnicity across time; use of diversified science methods in archaeology; critical ethnographic studies; diversity in the archaeology of death, heritage studies, and archaeology of ‘scapes’.
