Sullivan, Alan P., III, editorOlszewski, Deborah I., editorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher2016-11-282016-11-282016http://hdl.handle.net/10217/178260Includes bibliographical references and index.Contributors illustrate the virtues of various ecological, experimental, statistical, and cognitive/social approaches for understanding the origins, formation histories, and inferential potential of a wide range of archaeological phenomena.--Provided by publisher.Working with archaeological variability in the 21st century, thinking about materiality, epistemology, and ontology / Alan P. Sullivan III and Deborah I. Olszewski -- A lithic perspective on ecological dynamics in the upper pleistocene of western Eurasia / C. Michael Barton and Julien Riel-Salvatore -- The significance of "persistent places" in shaping regional settlement history: the case of the Mimbres Mogollon / Barbara J. Roth -- Reductive technology and the epipaleolithic of the Middle East and North Africa / Deborah I. Olszewski -- Context and complexity on the arid margins of Australia: assessing human responses to an unpredictable environment / Simon J. Holdaway, Justin I. Shiner, Patricia C. Fanning and Matthew J. Douglass -- Theoretical implications of artifact-scatter lithic assemblage variability for mobility-based models of technological organization / Alan P. Sullivan III -- Timelessness and the legacy of archaeological cartography / Sissel Schroeder and Lynne Goldstein -- Sherd cross-joins, ceramic use-wear, and depositional history: rethinking the sociopolitical aftermath of a collapsed Bronze age cistern at Myrtos-Pyrgos, Crete / Emilia Oddo and Gerald Cadogan -- Estimating the population size of Casas Grandes: empirical issues and theoretical consequences / David R. Wilcox -- Biface production at Tabun: manufacture, maintenance, and morphological variability / Gary O. Rollefson -- Celebrating the dead and recrafting social identity: placing prehistoric mortuary practices in broader social context / Brian F. Byrd and Jeffrey Rosenthal -- Flint from the ancestors: ritualized use of stone tools in the prehistoric Southwest / John C. Whittaker and Kathryn A. Kamp -- Form, function, and mental templates in paleolithic archaeology / Philip G. Chase -- The role of controlled experiments in understanding variation in flake production / Zeljko Rezek, Sam Lin, and Harold L. Dibble.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Archaeology -- MethodologyTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.