Quizlet flashcards, activities and games help you improve your grades. Recent attempts by ethnoarchaeologists like hodder and binford to explain past human behavior lack. Pdf ethnoarchaeology with kathryn weedman john arthur. Lewis roberts binford november 21, 1931 april 11, 2011 was an american archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the paleolithic period. Except where otherwise noted, this items licence is described as attributionnoncommercial 4. Ethnoarchaeologys contributions to the interpretation of the archaeological record and. Analytical archaeology volume 55 issue 215 glynn isaac. Nunamiut ethnoarchaeology is the report of a field study carried out by lewis binford among the nunamiut eskimos of interior northwest alaska between 1969 and 1972. Archaeologists use ar discussions of ethnoarchaeology are spiced with. The information in this record has been migrated into tdar from the national archaeological database reports module nadbr and updated.
Lewis r binford simultaneous description of nunamiut eskimo of anaktuvuk pass, alaska, in both behavioural and archaeological terms. The use of ethnoarchaeology for the archaeological study of. An ethnoarchaeological study journal of anthropological. In nunamiut ethnoarchaeology the late lewis binford documents the hunting and butchering strategies of modern arctic big game hunters and the archaeological remains generated during the course of their yearly round of activitiesproducing a unique description of a complete annual cycle of subsistence activities, viewed simultaneously from both a behavioral and archaeological perspective. In the traditional academic division of labor, ethnographers study the present. In general, binfords work is ingenious and timely, for it could not even be duplicated now. An ethnoarchaeological study of feasting in sulawesi, indonesia, journal of anthropological archaeology 23. Nunamiut life are much easier reading, and there is a masterful description of summer life discomforts experienced on the tundra pp. It could do the same for the trivial pursuit of an ethnoarchaeology spawning schools of ethnographic analogies with unstated relevance for practical archaeology. Lewis roberts binford author of in pursuit of the past.
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