AU - Schiffer, Michael B. TI - Advances in archaeological method and theory SN - 01200310191 SN - 01628003 AV - CC75 A38 1978-79,v.1-2 PY - 1978///-1979 CY - New York, San Fransisco, London PB - Academic Press KW - Archaeology KW - Methodology KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographies and index; Volume 1 : 1. Optimizing Strategies for Evaluating Archaeological Significance / Michael J. Moratto and Roger E. Kelly -- 2. The Concept of Carrying Capacity in the Study of Culture Process / Michael A. Glassow -- 3. Demographic Archaeology / Fekri A. Hassan -- 4. Mortuary Practices and the Study of Prehistoric Social Systems / Joseph A. Tainter -- 5. Social Interaction and Stylistic Similarity : A Reanalysis / Stephen Plog -- 6. Inference and Evidence in Archaeology : A Discussion of the Conceptual Problems / Alan P. Sullivan -- 7. Independent Dating in Archaeological Analysis / Jeffrey S. Dean -- 8. Advances in Archaeological Seriation / William H. Marquardt -- 9. A Survey of Disturbance Processes in Archaeological Site Formation / W. Raymond Wood and Donald Lee Johnson -- 10. Decision Making in Modern Surveys / Stephen Plog, Fred Plog and Walter Wait -- Volume 2 : 1. Modern Material Culture Studies / William L. Rathje -- 2. The Cross-Cultural Method in Archaeology / Charles W. McNett, Jr -- 3. Breaking Down the System : Recent Ecological Approaches in Archaeology / Michael A. Jochim -- 4. The Method and Theory of Site Catchment Analysis : A Review / Donna C. Roper -- 5. Three Locational Models : An Epistemological Assessment for Anthropology and Archaeology / Carole L. Crumley -- 6. Archaeologically, What Constitutes an Early Domestic Animal ? / Stanley J. Olsen -- 7. On the Quantification of Vertebrate Archaeofaunas / Donald K. Grayson -- 8. The Role of Archaeometry in American Archaeology : Approaches to the Evalution of the Antiquity of Homo sapiens in California / R. E. Taylor and Louis A. Payen -- 9. Paleoethnobotany in American Archaeology / Richard I. Ford ER -