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      Prehistory of the Oregon Coast: The Effects of Excavation Strategies and Assemblage Size on Archaeological Inquiry

      R Lee Lyman

      This book is the first synthesis of the prehistory of the coast of Oregon.

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      Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America

      R. Lee Lyman

      Illuminates the career of Theodore E. White and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. R. Lee Lyman works to fill gaps in…

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      Vertebrate Taphonomy

      R. Lee Lyman (University of Missouri, Columbia)

      This work of reference covers the analytical techniques developed to help understand prehistoric animal remains.

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      Quantitative Paleozoology

      R. Lee Lyman (University of Missouri, Columbia)

      The first book of its kind in two decades. Lyman describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed…

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      Quantitative Paleozoology

      R. Lee Lyman (University of Missouri, Columbia)

      The first book of its kind in two decades. Lyman describes and illustrates how the remains of long-dead animals recovered from archaeological and paleontological excavations can be studied and analyzed…

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      Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form

      Americanist Culture History reprints thirty-nine classic works of Americanist archaeological literature published between 1907 and 1971. The editors also include an introduction that summarizes the rise and fall of the…

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      Graphing Culture Change in North American Archaeology: A History of Graph Types

      R. Lee Lyman (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia)

      North American archaeologists have grappled with finding a graph that effectively and efficiently displays culture change over time. This volume explores the history of graphing culture change, and brings graph…

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      James A.Ford and the Growth of Americanist Archaeology

      Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

      Tells the story of Ford’s role in the development of culture history, the dominant paradigm in the field from roughly 1914 to 1960. By studying Ford’s life and the major…

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      Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology

      R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien

      Combining historical research with a explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, this work examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways…

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      Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology

      R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien

      Combining historical research with an explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, this work examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures. It also analyzes the different…

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      W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

      This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern’s use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development…

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      Cladistics & Archaeology

      Michael J O'Brien,R Lee Lyman

      Cladistics is a method used in biology and paleobiology to establish phylogeny: what produced what and in what order. It is a very specific method, developed in Germany in the…

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      Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating

      Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

      Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the…

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      Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach

      Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

      After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word…

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      Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach

      Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

      After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word…

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      Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating

      Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

      Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the…

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      Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques

      J. Tyler Faith (University of Utah),R. Lee Lyman (University of Missouri, Columbia)

      This book is targeted to students and professionals in archaeology, paleontology, and paleoecology. The reconstruction of ancient environments on the basis of fossil animal remains is a staple of these…

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      Paleozoology and Paleoenvironments: Fundamentals, Assumptions, Techniques

      J. Tyler Faith (University of Utah),R. Lee Lyman (University of Missouri, Columbia)

      This book is targeted to students and professionals in archaeology, paleontology, and paleoecology. The reconstruction of ancient environments on the basis of fossil animal remains is a staple of these…

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      Archaeology as a Process: Processualism and Its Progeny

      Michael O'Brien,R Lee Lyman,Michael Brian Schiffer

      The publication in 1962 of Lew Binford’s paper Archaeology as Anthropology is generally considered to mark the birth of processualism - a critical turning point in American archaeology. In the…

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      Setting the Agenda for American Archaeology: The National Research Council Archaeological Conferences of 1929, 1932 and 1935

      This collection elucidates the key role played by the National Research Council seminars, reports, and pamphlets in setting an agenda that has guided American archaeology in the 20th century.

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      Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form

      Americanist Culture History reprints thirty-nine classic works of Americanist archaeological literature published between 1907 and 1971. The editors also include an introduction that summarizes the rise and fall of the…

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      The Rise and Fall of Culture History

      R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien,Robert C. Dunnell

      Presents an analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. This volume discusses reasons for the acceptance and incorporation of concepts, as well as the paradigm’s strengths and weaknesses.

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      The Rise and Fall of Culture History

      R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien,Robert C. Dunnell

      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…

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      Measuring the Flow of Time: The Works of James A.Ford, 1935-41

      James A. Ford

      James Ford devoted his life to establishing a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types. This volume traces the development of culture history in American archaeology by providing a single…

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      Method and Theory in American Archaeology

      Gordon R. Willey,Philip Phillips

      This is a facsimile reprint of a 1958 title. It outlines the state of American archaeology at that time. It suggests that little interpretation was taking in place in American…

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