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Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology
ISBN: 9780521108508 | 0521108500
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/9/2009
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The aim of the contributors to Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology is therefore to examine what we mean by diversity, to review the methods of measurement and formulae we an apply and assess the pitfalls that exist.
One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through history. Recognising that diversity exists is not, however, to explain it nor to measure it effectively. The aim of the contributors to Quantifying Diversi... MORE
One of the enduring aims of archaeological research has been to explain why human material culture is so diverse, both across the world and through history. Recognising that diversity exists is not, however, to explain it nor to measure it effectively. The aim of the contributors to Quantifying Diversi... MORE
| Preface | |
| The diversity concept | |
| The concept of diversity: an introduction | |
| The theory and mechanics of ecological diversity in archaeology | |
| Diversity, variation and selection | |
| Components of diversity: richness, evenness and factors influencing their assessment | |
| Sample size, significance and measures of diversity | |
| Formation processes of Broken K Pueblo: some ... MORE | |
| Structure and diversity in intrasite spatial analysis | |
| Measures of diversity and expedient lithic technologies | |
| Sample size and relative abundance in archaeological analysis: illustrations from spiral fractures and seriation | |
| Assessments of archaeological diversity | |
| Diversity in hunter-gatherer cultural geography | |
| The effect of urbanisation on faunal diversity: a comparison between New York City and St Augustine, Florida, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries | |
| Changing strategies of Anasazi lithic procurement on Black Mesa, Arizona | |
| Ceramic diversity, production and use | |
| The use of diversity in stylistic analysis | |
| Commentary | |
| The concept of diversity in archaeological theory | |
| Diversity in archaeology: a group of measures in search of application? | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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