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...

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