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Archaeology of Frontiers & Boundaries
Authors: J ROBINSON Publisher: Elsevier Science Publication date: 2014 Publication language: Angielski Number of pages: 366 Publication formats: EAN: 9781483294391 ISBN: 9781483294391 Category: Archaeology Publisher's index: 9781483294391 Bibliographic note: -
TOC
- Front Cover 2
- The Archaeology of Frontiers and Boundaries 5
- Copyright Page 6
- Dedication 7
- Table of Contents 9
- CONTRIBUTORS 15
- PREFACE 17
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 19
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PART I:
An Approach to the Archaeological Study of
Frontiers and Boundaries
21
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CHAPTER 1. Frontiers, Boundaries, and Open Social Systems
23
- INTRODUCTION 23
- PATTERN AND PROCESS IN ARCHAEOLOGY 24
- OPEN SOCIAL SYSTEMS 26
- FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES AS FOCI FOR OPEN SYSTEM RESEARCH 29
- REFERENCES 32
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CHAPTER 1. Frontiers, Boundaries, and Open Social Systems
23
- Front Cover 2
- The Archaeology of Frontiers and Boundaries 5
- Copyright Page 6
- Dedication 7
- Table of Contents 9
- CONTRIBUTORS 15
- PREFACE 17
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 19
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PART I:
An Approach to the Archaeological Study of
Frontiers and Boundaries
21
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CHAPTER 1. Frontiers, Boundaries, and Open Social Systems
23
- INTRODUCTION 23
- PATTERN AND PROCESS IN ARCHAEOLOGY 24
- OPEN SOCIAL SYSTEMS 26
- FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES AS FOCI FOR OPEN SYSTEM RESEARCH 29
- REFERENCES 32
- CONCLUDING REMARKS 32
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CHAPTER 2. Closed Models of Open Systems: Boundary Considerations
35
- SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND THEIR MODELS 35
- BOUNDARY MODELS AND SYSTEM CHANGE 37
- MODEL BOUNDARIES OF STABLE SYSTEMS 40
- TESTING 46
- REFERENCES 48
- NOTES 48
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 48
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PART II: Foragers, Pastoralists, and Subsistence Farmers
51
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CHAPTER 3. Group Size and Mobility Costs
53
- INTRODUCTION 53
- MOBILITY COSTS 54
- THE HUNTER-GATHERER GROUP SIZE CURVES AND OPEN SYSTEMS 62
- MOBILITY COSTS AND HUNTER-GATHERER ETHNOGRAPHY 63
- GROUP SIZES IN STABLE AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS 64
- CHANGING ARCHAIC POPULATION DISTRIBUTIONS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO MASSACHUSETTS 65
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 68
- REFERENCES 68
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CHAPTER 4.
Cultural Boundaries and
Ecological Frontiers in Coastal Regions:
An Example from the Alaska Peninsula
71
- INTRODUCTION 71
- THE ALEUT/ESKIMO BOUNDARY 74
- ALEUT/ESKIMO ORIGINS 75
- LATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEQUENCES ON THE UPPER ALASKA PENINSULA 77
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS OF THE LOWER ALASKA PENINSULA 79
- ETHNOHISTORY 87
- MODELING THE NORTHERN PENINSULA 91
- DISCUSSION 101
- NOTES 104
- CONCLUSION 104
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 105
- REFERENCES 105
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CHAPTER 5.
Forager/Farmer Interactions: Information,
Social Organization, and the Frontier
113
- INTRODUCTION 113
- INFORMATION AND THE FRONTIER 115
- SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS 117
- DISCUSSION 124
- CONCLUSION 128
- REFERENCES 129
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CHAPTER 6. The Hunter-Gatherer/Agricultural Frontier in Prehistoric Temperate Europe
133
- INTRODUCTION 133
- EARLY FARMERS AND COLONIZATION 137
- THE HUNTER-GATHERER POPULATIONS 140
- MOBILE FRONTIERS 141
- STATIC FRONTIERS 152
- DISCUSSION 155
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT 156
- REFERENCES 156
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CHAPTER 7.
Boundaries as Strategies:
An Ethnoarchaeological Study
161
- INTRODUCTION 161
- THE BARINGO DISTRICT 163
- THE FUNCTIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS OF DECORATED CALABASHES 166
- THE SIGNIFICANCE AND INTERPRETATION OF CALABASH DECORATION 167
- BOUNDARIES BETWEEN REGIONAL SOCIAL UNITS 176
- REFERENCES 179
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PART III: Complex Society
181
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CHAPTER 8. Surplus Flow between Frontiers and Homelands
183
- INTRODUCTION 183
- DESCRIPTIVE MODELS OF FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT 185
- BEHAVIORAL RELATIONS IN FRONTIERS 189
- FRONTIER CHANGE IN HISTORICAL NEW ENGLAND 201
- CONCLUSIONS 220
- REFERENCES 225
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CHAPTER 9. Evolution on the Industrial Frontier
233
- INTRODUCTION 233
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECOSYSTEMS ON THE INDUSTRIAL FRONTIER 236
- PROCESSES OF ECOSYSTEM DIFFERENTIATION ON THE INDUSTRIAL FRONTIER 238
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 244
- REFERENCES 246
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 246
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CHAPTER 10. Urban Hinterlands as Frontiers of Colonization
251
- INTRODUCTION 251
- THE STUDY AREA 254
- METHODS OF ANALYSIS 259
- POPULATION AND SETTLEMENT PROCESSES 261
- LAND-USE PATTERNS AND FOREST CLEARANCE 263
- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 266
- REFERENCES 267
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CHAPTER 11.
Functional Variation among Settlements on the
South Carolina Frontier: An Archaeological
Perspective
271
- INTRODUCTION 271
- THE INSULAR FRONTIER MODEL 272
- SOUTH CAROLINA'S DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 275
- AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIEW OF SETTLEMENT 280
- CONCLUSIONS 289
- NOTE 290
- REFERENCES 291
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CHAPTER 12. The Arctic Frontier of Norse Greenland
295
- INTRODUCTION 295
- LOCAL GREENLANDIC SETTLEMENT AND SUBSISTENCE 297
- LOCAL GREENLANDIC POLITICAL ORGANIZATION 300
- THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRADE 301
- DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE FOR THE NORDRSETUR 304
- LOCATING NORDRSETUR PLACE NAMES 305
- LOCATING NORDRSETUR RESOURCES: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE 307
- LOCATIONAL EVIDENCE FOR THE NORDRSETUR HUNT 314
- ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE 317
- ARTIFACTUAL EVIDENCE 322
- AN ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL FOR THE NORDRSETUR 322
- HUNTING TECHNIQUES 323
- CONSTRAINTS OF CARGO CAPACITY AND DEMAND 324
- CONSTRAINTS OF TIME AND LABOR 326
- CONSTRAINTS OF HAZARD 327
- LABOR MOBILIZATION 328
- LOCAL ELITES AND THE EUROPEAN CORE 329
- CULTURE CONTACT AND THE NORDRSETUR 331
- DECLINE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRADE 334
- REFERENCES 336
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 336
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CHAPTER 13.
Baptists and Boundaries: Lessons from
Baptist Material Culture
345
- INTRODUCTION 345
- CONGREGATIONAL DIVERSITY AND AUTONOMY 347
- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 348
- CONCLUSIONS 356
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 357
- REFERENCES 357
- INDEX 361
- STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY 365
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CHAPTER 8. Surplus Flow between Frontiers and Homelands
183
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CHAPTER 3. Group Size and Mobility Costs
53
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CHAPTER 1. Frontiers, Boundaries, and Open Social Systems
23