Style and Function: Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Figures and Tables......Page 9
Preface......Page 25
1 Style and Function An Introduction......Page 29
2 Differential Persistence of What The Scale of Selection Issue in Evolutionary Archaeology......Page 53
3 Directionality Function and Adaptation in the Archaeological Record......Page 69
4 Explaining the Co occurrence of Traits in the Archaeological Record A Further Consideration of Replicative Success......Page 79
5 Culture Historical and Biological Approaches to Identifying Homologous Traits......Page 97
6 Neutrality  Style and Drift Building Methods for Studying Cultural Transmission in the Archaeological Record......Page 119
7 Style, Function, and Variation......Page 147
8 A Million Years of Style and Function Regional and Temporal Variation in Acheulean Handaxes......Page 169
9 Implications of New Studies of Hawaiian Fishhook Variability for Our Understanding of Polynesian Settlement History......Page 193
10 Style Function and Systematic Empiricism The Conflation of Process and Pattern......Page 211
Index......Page 231
About the Contributors......Page 239