Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology : : Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture / / ed. by Metin I. Eren, Briggs Buchanan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Andrews, Brian,; Bebber, Michelle R.,; Boulanger, Matthew T.,; Breslawski, Ryan P.,; Buchanan, Briggs,; Chao, Anne,; Colwell, Robert K.,; Du, Andrew,; Eren, Metin I.,; Faith, J. Tyler,; Hurst Thomas, David,; Jorgeson, Ian A.,; Kuhn, Steven L.,; Lee Lyman, R.,; Lycett, Stephen J.,; Macdonald, Danielle A.,; Morga, Brooke,; Otárola-Castillo, Erik,; Stemp, W. James,; Torquato, Melissa G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Farahani, Alan,; Hill, Matthew E.,; O’Brien, Michael J.,; Sinensky, R. J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Understanding archaeological diversity is key to understanding human culture in the past. Archaeologists have long experienced a tenuous relationship with statistics; however, the regular integration of diversity measures and concepts into archaeological practice is becoming increasingly important. This volume includes chapters that cover a wide range of archaeological applications of diversity measures. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction. On the Challenges of Measuring Diversity in Archaeology -- Chapter 1. Dispersion and Diversity: Parfleche Variation on the Great Plains vs. the Columbia Plateau -- Chapter 2. Th e Diversity of North America’s “Old Copper” Projectile Points -- Chapter 3. Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Architecture -- Chapter 4. The Potential of Coverage-Based Rarefaction in Zooarchaeology -- Chapter 5. Diversity and Lithic Microwear: Quantification, Classification, and Standardization -- Chapter 6. Intensification Mechanisms Driving Dietary Change among the Great Plains Big Game Hunters of North America -- Appendix 6.1. Summary Information for Archaeological Sites Used in Th is Study -- Chapter 7. Challenges and Prospects of Richness and Diversity Measures in Paleoethnobotany -- Appendix 7.1. Abundance of Reproductive Plant Parts Recovered from the Las Capas Site, Southeastern Arizona, 1220–730 BCE -- Chapter 8. Quantifying Evenness of Paleoindian Projectile Point Forms within Geographic Regions of Eastern North America -- Chapter 9. Th inking about Diversity in Material Culture at Multiple Scales -- Chapter 10. Measuring and Comparing Class Diversity in Archaeological Assemblages: A Brief Guide to the History and State-of-the-Art in Diversity Statistics -- Epilogue. Diversity Metrics are Convenient, but Their Archaeological Meanings Are Still Obscure -- Index