Defining and measuring diversity in archaeology : another step toward an evolutionary synthesis of culture

Weitere Verfasser: Eren, Metin I., 1982- , [HerausgeberIn]
Buchanan, Briggs , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Berghahn, 2022.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Defining and measuring diversity in archaeology (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781800734296
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction. On the challenges of measuring of diversity in archaeology / Briggs Buchanan and Metin I. Eren
  • Dispersion and diversity : parfleche variation on the Great Plains vs. the Columbia Plateau / Stephen J. Lycett
  • The diversity of North America's "Old Copper" projectile points / Michelle R. Bebber and Anne Chao
  • Diversity in hunter-gatherer architecture / Brian Andrews, Danielle Macdonald, and Brooke Morgan
  • The potential of coverage-based rarefaction in zooarchaeology / J. Tyler Faith and Andrew Du
  • Diversity and lithic microwear : quantification, classification, and standardization / W. James Stemp and Danielle A. Macdonald
  • Intensification mechanisms driving dietary change among the Great Plains big game hunters of North America / Erik Otárola-Castillo, Melissa G. Torquato, and Matthew E. Hill
  • Challenges and prospects of richness and diversity measures in paleoethnobotany / Alan Farahani and R. J. Sinensky
  • Quantifying evenness of paleoindian projectile point forms within geographic regions of eastern North America / Matthew T. Boulanger, Ryan Breslawski, and Ian Jorgeson
  • Thinking about diversity in material culture at multiple scales / Steven L. Kuhn
  • Measuring and comparing class diversity in archaeological assemblages : a brief guide to the history and state-of-the-art in diversity statistics / Robert K. Colwell and Anne Chao
  • Epilogue. Diversity metrics are convenient archaeologically, but their archaeological meanings are still obscure / R. Lee Lyman.