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050 00 $aGN 388$bB56 2001
100 1 $aBinford, Lewis R.$q(Lewis Roberts),$d1931-2011
245 10 $aConstructing frames of reference :$ban analytical method for archaeological theory building using hunter-gatherer and environmental data sets /$cLewis R. Binford.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2001.
300 $axx, 563 p. :$bill. ;$c29 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-534) and index.
505 0 $aExploring Prior Knowledge and Belief -- "Founder's Effect" and the Study of Hunter-Gatherers -- The Explanatory Challenge of Complex Wholes -- Several Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Variability -- Human Actors and Their Role in the Evolutionary Play -- Actors in Hyperspace -- Exploring the Properties of the Actors: A Prerequisite for Understanding Niche -- Assessing Risk and Uncertainty When Considering Volition and Planning -- Blaming Human Uniqueness for the Lack of Productive Theory -- Human Uniqueness Is a Constant, Not a Cause -- Received Knowledge, Volition, and the Outcomes of Future Events -- The Need for Organizational Approaches to Variability -- The Play of Ideas in the Scientific Theater -- Act I, Scene 1: Data Production -- Act I, Scene 2: Dimensionalizing Data -- Act II, Scene 1: Building and Using Frames of Reference -- Act II, Scene 2: Projection -- Act III, Scene 1: Developing a Dialogue between Researchers and Hunter-Gatherers -- Act III, Scene 2: Learning about Variability through Pattern Recognition Techniques -- Methods for Using Prior Knowledge: Building Frames of Reference and Models -- Setting the Stage for the Evolutionary Play: The Earth's Climates, Plants, and Animals -- Climate: A Baseline for the Study of Ecology -- Biomes and Habitats: Structures of Accessible Resources -- Designing Frames of Reference and Exploring Projections: The Plot Thickens -- Hunter-Gatherer Niche Diversity -- Hunter-Gatherer Variability -- Productive Results from Biased Data -- Projecting Hunter-Gatherer Populations to the Entire Earth -- Building a Baseline for Analyzing Niche Variability among Ethnographically Documented Peoples: A Minimalist Terrestrial Model of Hunting and Gathering -- Ecosystems, Sociocultural Systems, and Evolution -- Environmental Properties Germane to an Understanding of Variability among Hunter-Gatherers -- Model Building: Further Considerations of Species-Specific Properties and Initial Conditions for Imagining Dynamics -- A Model of an Exclusively Terrestrial Hunter-Gatherer Who Responds Primarily to Variability in Directly Accessible Foods -- Using Models and Projections: System State Differences and Ideas about Emergent Complexity -- Looking at the Spread of Agropastoralism with Projected Knowledge -- Searching for Clues to Process: Other Uses for Frames of Reference -- Recognizing Patterns and Generalizing about What the World Is Like: The Transition from Pattern Recognition to Theory Building -- Twenty-One Generalizations in Search of a Theory -- Recognizing System State Variability -- Exploring System State Variability among Ethnographically Documented Hunter-Gatherers -- Relating Our Observations and Generalizations to Arguments in the Anthropological Literature -- Exploring Systems State Variability at a Smaller Scale -- Building a Minimalist Model of Hunter-Gatherer Group Size as a Standard for Measurement -- A Flat Earth or a "Thick Rotundity"?: Investigating What the World Is Like before Attempting to Explain It -- Variability in Group1 Size: The Model versus the Documented Cases -- Identifying Other Conditioners of Group Size Variability -- Where Are We? An Assessment -- The Play's the Thing in the Scientific Theater -- Spotlight on the Group Size Model -- Risk Pooling or Nested Hierarchies of Decision Makers? -- Too Many Models and Constants! -- More Interesting Problems Raised by the Frequency Distributions of "Basal Units" -- The "Population Pressure" Controversy and the General Issue of Density-Dependent Changes in Organization -- Reflections -- Putting Ideas, Second-Order Derivative Patterning, and Generalizations Together: Explorations in Theory Building -- A Disembodied Observer Looks at Hunter-Gatherer Responses to Packing -- Habitat Variability, Potential Niche Diversity, and the Spatial Structure of Resource Accessibility -- Two New Instruments for Measurement: Spatial Packing and Niche Effectiveness -- Pattern Recognition Using Instruments for Measurement -- Intensification and Technology: More Responses to Packing -- The Evolution of System States: Complexity, Stability, Symmetry, and System Change -- The Once and Future Processual Archaeology -- Recent Archaeological Research on Complexity: Issues of Stability and Instability -- Applying New Knowledge about Stability and Instability to Questions of Specialization and Diversification -- One Route to Complexity: Emergence through Internal Differentiation -- The Last Act Crowns the Play -- How Hunter-Gatherers Become Non-Hunter-Gatherers -- Glimpses of Processes beyond the Packing Threshold -- Have I Established a General Research Procedure?.
650 0 $aHunting and gathering societies.
650 0 $aHuman evolution.
650 0 $aSocial evolution.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology.
650 0 $aEnvironmental archaeology.
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