ANG6110a - Archaeological Theory and Method (an "M" course)
Arlen Chase

Syllabus

Course Requirements

Format for Article Reviews

 

Articles of Interest for Archaeological Methods & Theory (to be found in the "readings" button in Web-CT or from class)

Allen, Melinda S.

2003 "Style and Function in East Polynesian Fishhooks."

Beck, Charlotte

2003 "Functional Attributes and the Differential Persistence of Great Basin Dart Forms."

Berggren, Asa and Ian Hodder

2003 "Social Practice, Method, and Some Problems of Field Archaeology."

Binford, Lewis

1962 "Archaeology as Anthropology."

Binford, Lewis

1972 "Introduction" to An Archaeological Perpsective.

Binford, Lewis

1989 "'Culture' and Social Roles in Archaeology"

Chase, Arlen F. and Diane Z. Chase

1983 "Intensive Gardening Among the Late Classic Maya."

Chase, Arlen F. and Diane Z. Chase

2001 "Ancient Maya Causeways and Site Organizationat Caracol, Belize."

Chase, Arlen F. and Diane Z. Chase

2004a "Terminal Classic Status-Linked Ceramics and the 'Maya Collapse:' De Facto Refuse at Caracol, Belize."

Chase, Diane Z. and Arlen F. Chase

2004b "Archaeological Perspectives on Classic Maya Social Organization at Caracol, Belize."

Chase, Diane Z. and Arlen F. Chase

2006 "Framing the Maya Collapse: Continuity, Discontinuity, Method, and Practice in the Classic to Postclassic Southern Maya Lowlands."

Chase, Diane Z. and Arlen F. Chase

in press a "Ghosts Among the Ruins: Linking the Living and the Dead at Caracol, Belize."

Chase, Diane Z. and Arlen F. Chase

in press b "Changes in Maya Religious Worldview: Liminality and the Archaeological Record."

Chase, Arlen, Diane Chase, and Harriot Topsey

1988 "Archaeology and the Ethics of Collecting."

Cowgill, George L.

2004 "Origins and Development of Urbanism: Archaeological Perspectives."

Deetz, James and Edwin Dethlefsen

1967 "Death's Head, Cherub, Urn, and Willow."

Flannery, Kent

1976 "Sampling on the Regional Level."

Flannery, Kent

1982 "The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s."

Flanney, Kent and Joyce Marcus

1993 "Cognitive Archaeology."

Ford, James

1954 "The Type Concept Revisited."

Harris, Marvin

1999 "Cultural Materialism".

Harris, Marvin

1999 "Postmodernism".

Hill, James

1970 "Prehistoric Social Organization in the American Southwest: Theory and Method."

Hirth, Kenneth G.

1998 "The Distributional Approach: A New Way to Identify Marketplace Exchange in the Archaeological Record."

Hodder, Ian

1992 "Towards a Coherent Archaeology."

Layton, Robert

2003 "Agency, Structuration, and Complexity."

Leventhal, Richard M. and Deborah Erdman Cornavaca

2004 "Willey and Phillips" in Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology.

Lyman, R. Lee and Michael J. O'Brien

2001 "The Direct Historical Approach, Analogical Reasoning, and Theory in Americanist Archaeology."

Lyman, R. Lee and Michael J. O'Brien

2004 "A History of Normative Theory in Americanist Archaeology."

Mills, Barbara J.

2002 "Recent Research on Chaco: Changing Views on Economy, Ritual, and Society."

Plunket, Patrica and Gabriela Urunuela

2003 "From Episodic to Permanent Abandonment: Responses to Volcanic Hazards at Tetimpa, Puebla, Mexico."

Reid, J. Jefferson, Michael B. Schiffer, and William Rathje

1975 "Behavioral Archaeology: Four Strategies."

Saperstein, Alvin M.

1995 "War and Chaos: Complexity Theory ..."

Schiffer, Michael B.

1983 "Toward the Identification of Formation Processes."

Schiffer, Michael B.

1985 "Is There a 'Pompeii Premise' in Archaeology?".

Schmidt, Peter R. and S. Terry Childs

1995 "Ancient African Iron Production."

Sheets, Payson D.

1998 "Place and Time in Activity Area Analysis".

Sinopoli, Carla M.

1999 "Levels of Complexity: Ceramic Variability at Vijayanagara."

Spaulding, Albert

1953 "Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types."

Smith, Michael E.

2004 "The Archaeology of Ancient State Economies."

Stein, Gil

2000 Rethinking World Systems pp. 10-64.

Teeter, Wendy G. and Arlen F. Chase

2004 "Adding Flesh to Bones: Using Zooarchaeology Research to Answer the Big-Picture Questions."

Webb, Ronald W. and Kenneth G. Hirth

2003 "Xochicalco, Morelos: The Abandonment of Households at an Epiclassic Urban Center."

Wobst, H. Martin

1999 "Style in Archaeology of Archaeologists in Style."