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Mathieu, J. R., ed. (2004).
Exploring the role of analytical scale in archaeological interpretation
. Oxford: Archaeopress.
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Exploring the role of analytical scale in archaeological interpretation
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British Archaeological Reports
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S1261
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114
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Monograph Chapter (in Series)
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Papers arising from a symposium session entitled `Continuity and Change: The Role of Analytical Scale in European Archaeology' for the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 2000. The basic premise behind the volume is that the scale at which archaeologists pursue research, the analytical scale, effects interpretations of the archaeological record. The purpose is to encourage an explicit discussion of this relationship in order to develop a clearer understanding of its impact on research; this is done by highlighting some aspects of the role played by analytical scale in the analysis and interpretation of the archaeology of Europe. The papers include
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Editor:
James R Mathieu
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James R Mathieu
Rachel E Scott
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Archaeopress
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2004
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1-84171-619-7
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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21 Sep 2004
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Abstract
Introduction: exploring the role of analytical scale in archaeol...
James R Mathieu
Rachel E Scott
1 - 9
the authors present their general ideas concerning the concept of analytical scale
Scale factors in early European farming
Peter Bogucki
11 - 18
the author considers several cases from Neolithic central Europe in which the choice of spatial and temporal scales of field research and analysis has had an impact on archaeological interpretation
Analytical scale, populations, and the Mesolithic--Neolithic transition in the far north-west of Europe
Timothy C Darvill
19 - 26
the author addresses the need for good methodologies to implement landscape-based approaches and argues, using data from a project on the Isle of Man, that archaeologists should reframe their questions to allow geographically larger-scale analyses
Scale and its discontents
D B Gibson
27 - 44
the paper examines some of the critiques and proposed alternatives to the use of scale, with an eye to evaluating the benefits and motivations of these, and further explores some of the challenges to the scale concept posed by the archaeological and historical record of Neolithic and early medieval Ireland
The four scales of technical analysis; or, How to make archaeometry more useful
Elizabeth Hamilton
45 - 48
the paper argues that technical facts should be interpreted on four different scales: the individual actor/producer and his/her choices, the production group and its collection of knowledge and labour organisation, the wider culture and the meanings ascribed to what and how artefacts are produced, and the greater interaction areas of cultures and transmission of technologies and values. These ideas are discussed in the context of the European prehistoric and early historic periods
Faces in a crowd or a crowd of faces?; Archaeological evidence for individual and group i...
Genevieve Fisher
49 - 58
a multiscalar analysis of female dress ornaments derived from Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in East Anglia indicates that differential patterning can be identified at the level of the individual, site, and region. Despite the heterogeneity evident in individual ensembles of dress fasteners, their overall composition is constrained
Distinguishing the local from the regional: Irish perspectives on urbanization in early mediev...
John Soderberg
67 - 82
the paper presents evidence that that the monastery of Clonmacnoise had urban qualities by c.AD 700, a period lacking substantial evidence for the regional scale of analysis's ``complex of domination''; this evidence presents a challenge to the regional perspective and suggests that a distinct local scale of analysis should be reintegrated into conceptions of social complexity
Patterns in time and the tempo of change: a North Atlantic perspective on the evolution of c...
Kevin P Smith
83 - 99
the author explores the contrasting temporal, spatial, social and material-analytical scales involved in viewing complex society transformations from the perspective of the archaeological data and that of the individuals actively involved in the events, focusing on the case of Iceland during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD
Discussion
Peter S Wells
101 - 102
Discussion
Dean R Snow
103 - 108