| Course Readings and Weekly Topics Lecture 1. Tools: Philosophy and Archaeology Binford, L. 2001. Where do research problems come from? American Antiquity 66(4): 669-678. Johnson, M. 1999. Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. Blackwell: Oxford. Chapters 2 and 3. Hodder, I. 1999. The Archaeological Process: An Introduction. Blackwell: Oxford. Chapter 2. Hegmon, M. 2003. Setting theoretical egos aside: issues and theory in North American archaeology. (Special Section: Mapping the Terrain of Americanist Archaeology). American Antiquity, 68: 213-244 Lyman, R. L. 2007. Archaeology's quest for a seat at the high table of anthropology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26: 133-149. Meskell, L. 2001. Editorial Statement. Journal of Social Archaeology, 1(1): 5-12. Wylie, A. 1993. “A proliferation of archaeologies: 'Beyond objectivism and relativism',” in Archaeological Theory: who sets the agenda? Edited by N. Yoffee and A. Sherratt, pp. 20-26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wylie, Alison. 2000. Questions of evidence, legitimacy, and the (dis)unity of science. American Antiquity. v. 65, no. 2, 2000. pp. 227-237
Lecture 2. What is culture? Is it a useful archaeological concept? Barton, C. M., J. Bernabeu, J. E. Aura, O. Garcia, S. Schmich, and L. Molina. 2004. Long-term socioecology and contingent landscapes. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11 (3):253-295. Hodder, I. 2001. Introduction : a review of contemporary theoretical debates in archaeology. In Archaeological Theory Today. Polity Press: Cambridge . Chapter 1 pp. 1-13. Rodseth. L. 1998. Distributive Models of Culture: A Sapirian Alternative to Essentialism. American Anthropologist 100 (1); 55-69. Schiffer, M. B. 1972. Archaeological Context and Systemic Context. American Antiquity 37(2): 156-165. Sullivan, A. P. 1978. Inference and Evidence in Archaeology: A Discussion of the Conceptual Problems. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 1: 183-222.
Lecture 3. It’s a material world! At least I think so? Binford, L. R. 1989. Styles of style. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 8: 51-67. Dunnell, R. 1978. Style and Function: A Fundamental Dichotomy. American Antiquity 43:192-202. Holdaway, S., Stern, N. 2004.Frameworks for studying stone artefacts. In A Record in Stone: The Study of Australia’s Flaked Stone Artefacts. Melbourne, Museum Victoria and Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, xxiii, 376 pp. Chapter 2
Lecture 4. New Archaeology Binford, L., 1978. Dimensional Analysis of Behavior and Site Structure: Learning from an Eskimo Hunting Stand. American Antiquity 43:330 – 361. Binford, L. R. 1980. Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation. American Antiquity 45(1): 4-20. Dunnell, R. C. 1992. The notion site. In Space, Time, and Archaeological Landscapes, edited by J. Rossignol and L. Wandsnider, pp. 21-41. Plenum Press, New York. O'Connell, J. F. 1987. Alyawara Site Structure and its Archaeological Implications. American Antiquity 52(1):74-108. Schiffer, M. B. 1988. The Structure of Archaeological Theory. American Antiquity 53: 461-485. Shennan, S. 2004. Forty years on. Journal of Human Evolution 46:507-515. Shott, M. J. 1989. On Tool Class Use Lives and the Formation of Archaeological Assemblages. American Antiquity 54:9-30.
Lecture 5. Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology Beck, Charlotte, Amanda K. Taylor, George T. Jones, Cynthia M. Fadem, Caitlyn R. Cook, and Sara A. Millward. 2002. Rocks are heavy: transport costs and Paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21 (4):481-507. Bird, Douglas W., Bliege Bird, R. L. 1997. Contemporary shellfish gathering strategies among the Meriam of the Torres Strait Islands, Australia: testing predictions of a central place foraging model Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 39-63. Bird, D. W., and J. F. O'Connell. 2006. Behavioral ecology and archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 14 (2):143-188. O'Connell, James F. 1995. Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior. Journal of Archaeological Research 3(3): 205-255.
Lecture 6. Lecture Evolutionary Archaeology O'Brien, M. J. and R. L. Lyman. 2004. History and explanation in archaeology. Anthropological Theory 4(2):173-197. Lyman, R. Lee. and J. O ’ Brien.1998. The goals of evolutionary archaeology: history and explanation. Current Anthropology 39: 615-652. Lyman, R. Lee. and J. O ’ Brien. 2000. Measuring and explaining change in artifact variation with clade-diversity diagrams. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19: 39-74. Pauketat, T. 2004. Archaeology without alternatives. Anthropological Theory 42(2):199-203.
Lecture 7. Culture as an Evolutionary System TEXTBOOK: Hodder, I. and S. Hutson. 2003. Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Chapter 4 Shennan, S. 2002. Genes, Memes and Human History. Thames and Hudson: London. Chpt. 3. pp. 35-65. Gellner, E. 1982. "What is Structuralisme?," in Theory and Explanation in Archaeology. Edited by C. Renfrew, M. Rowlands, and B. Segraves, New York: Academic. pp. 97-123.
Lecture 8. Scales of Analysis: Long term processes and short term variation Collis, John. 1997. Celtic Myths. Antiquity 71: 195-201. Megaw, R. and V. Megaw. 1996. Anceint Celts and Modern Ethnicity. Antiquity 70: 151-181. Smith, Michael E. 1992. Braudel's temporal rhythms and chronology theory in archaeology. In: Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory Cambridge University Press: Cambridge ISBN 0521411742 1992, pp. 23-34
Lecture 9. Lecture Time Perspectivism Binford, L., 1981, Behavioral Archaeology and the Pompeii Premise. Journal of Anthropological Research 37:195-208. Bailey, G. 2007. Time perspectives, palimpsests and the archaeology of time. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26, 198-223. Holdaway, S. and L. Wandsnider. Time in Archaeology: An Introduction. In Holdaway, S. and L. Wandsnider (eds) Time in Archaeology, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. In press a Holdaway, S., Fanning, P. Assemblage Accumulation as a Time Dependent Process in the Arid Zone of Western New South Wales, Australia. In Holdaway, S. and L. Wandsnider (eds) Time in Archaeology, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. In press b Murray, T., 1999, A Return to the ' Pompeii Premise'. In Time and Archaeology, edited by T. Murray, pp. 8-27. Routledge, London.
Lecture 10. Are we Beavers?: Agency in Archaeology Systems, populations, individuals and actors. Do you matter? Barrett, J. C. 2001. Agency and the Archaeological Record, in Hodder, I. (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today. Polity Press: Cambridge. Chpt. 6 pp. 141-164. Thomas, J. 1999. Culture and identity. In G. Barker (ed.) Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Routledge: London. Pp. 431-469.
Lecture 11. Structure, History, and Materiality: Famous Beaver Dams Arkush, E. and C. Stanish. 2005. Interpreting Conflict in the Ancient Andes. Current Anthropology. 46(1): 3-25. Clark, J. E., and M. Blake. 1993. "The Power of Prestige: Competitive Generosity and the Emergence of Rank Societies in Lowland Mesoamerica," in Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World. Edited by E. Brumfiel and J. W. Fox, pp. 17-30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hodder, I., M. P. Leone, R. Bernbeck, M. Shanks, S. Tomaskova, P. A. McAnany, S. Shennan, and C. Renfrew. 2007. Revolution fulfilled? 'Symbolic and Structural Archaeology' a generation on. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17 (2):199-228. Renfrew, C. 1986. "Introduction: Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change," in Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change. Edited by C. Renfrew and J. Cherry, pp. 1-18. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Yentsch, A and M. Beaudry. 2001. American Material Culture in Mind, Thought and Deed. In Hodder, I. (ed.) Archaeological Theory Today. Polity Press: Cambridge. Chpt. 9 pp. 214-240.
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