Introduction to Discontinuities and Continuities: Theories, Methods and Proxies for a Historical and Sociological Approach to Evolution of Past Societies

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-193

  Roux, Valentine ^a,c   Courty, Marie Agnès ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Santa Fe Institute   (France)

Author keywords

Discontinuities and continuities; Epistemology; Evolution of past societies; Logicism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876902233     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-013-9170-y     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Barker, G., & Richards, M. B. (2013). Foraging-farming transitions in island southeast Asia. Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
2. Bintliff, J. L. (2006). Time, structure, and agency: the annales, emergent complexity, and archaeology. In J. L. Bintliff (Ed.), A companion to archaeology (pp. 174-192). New York: Blackwell.
3. Braudel, F. (1953). Georges Gurvitch ou la discontinuité du social. Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 8, 347-361.
4. Braudel, F. (1958). Histoire et sciences sociales: La longue durée. Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 13, 725-753.
5. Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., & Feldman, M. W. (1981). Cultural transmission and evolution: a quantitative approach. Princeton: Princeton University.
6. Courty, M. A., & Coqueugniot, E. (2013). A microfacies toolkit for revealing linkages between cultural discontinuities and exceptional geogenic events: the Tell Dja'dé case study (NE Syria). Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
7. Craver, C. F. (2006). When mechanistic models explain. Synthese, 153, 355-376.
8. Craver, C. F., & Bechtel, W. (2006). Mechanism. In S. Sarkar & J. Pfeifer (Eds.), Philosophy of science: an encyclopedia (pp. 469-478). New York: Routledge.
9. Gallay, A. (1989). Logicism: a French view of archaeological theory founded in computational perspective. Antiquity, 63, 27-39.
10. Gallay, A. (2011). Pour une ethnoarchéologie théorique. Paris: Editions Errance.
11. Gardin, J.-C. (1980). Archaeological constructs: an aspect of theoretical archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
12. Gardin, J. C. (1989). The role of "local knowledge" in archaeological interpretation. In S. J. Shennan (Ed.), Archaeological approaches to cultural identity (pp. 110-122). London: Unwin Hyman.
13. Gardin, J.-C., & Roux, V. (2004). The Arkeotek project: a European network of knowledge bases in archaeology of techniques. Archeologia e calcolatori, 15, 25-40.
14. Hayden, B. (1998). Practical and prestige technologies: the evolution of material systems. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 5, 1-55.
15. Kohler, T. A. (2013). How the pueblos got their sprachbund. Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
16. Kohler, T. A., Bocinsky, R. K., Cockburn, D., Crabtree, S. D., Varien, M. D., Kolm, K. E., et al. (2012). Modelling prehispanic pueblo societies in their ecosystems. Ecological Modelling, 241, 30-41. doi: 10. 1016/j. ecolmodel. 2012. 01. 002.
17. Kohler, T. A., van Buskirk, S., & Ruscavage-Barz, S. (2004). Vessels and villages: evidence for conformist transmission in early village aggregations on the Parajito Plateau, New Mexico. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 23, 100-118.
18. Kuhn, S. L. (2013). Questions of complexity and scale in explanations for cultural transitions in the Pleistocene: a case study from the early upper paleolithic. Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
19. Mesoudi, A. (2007). Using the methods of social psychology to study cultural evolution. Journal of Social Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, 1, 35-58.
20. Mesoudi, A., & O'Brien, M. J. (2009). Placing archaeology within a unified science of cultural evolution. In S. J. Shennan (Ed.), Pattern and process in cultural evolution (pp. 21-32). Berkeley: University of California Press.
21. Neiman, F. D. (1995). Stylistic variation in evolutionary perspective: inferences from decorative diversity and interassemblage distance in Illinois Woodland ceramic assemblages. American Antiquity, 60, 7-36.
22. Perlès, C. (2013). Tempi of change: when soloists don't play together. Arrhythmia in 'continuous' change. Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
23. Perlès, C. (1992). In search of lithic strategies: a cognitive approach to prehistoric chipped stone assemblage. In J.-C. Gardin & C. S. Peebles (Eds.), Representations in archaeology (pp. 223-247). Indiana: Indiana University Press.
24. Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2005). Not by genes alone. How culture transformed human evolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
25. Roux, V. (2013). Spreading of innovative technical traits and cumulative technical evolution: continuity or discontinuity? Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
26. Roux, V. (2003). A dynamic systems framework for studying technological change: application to the emergence of the potter's wheel in the southern Levant. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 10, 1-30.
27. Roux, V. (2007). Ethnoarchaeology: a non-historical science of reference necessary for interpreting the past. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 14, 153-178.
28. Schiffer, M. B., & Skibo, J. M. (1987). Theory and experiment in the study of technological change. Current Anthropology, 28, 595-622.
29. Schiffer, M. B., & Skibo, J. M. (1997). The explanation of artifact variability. American Antiquity, 62, 27-50.
30. Shennan, S. J. (2013). Demographic continuities and discontinuities in Neolithic Europe: evidence, methods and implications. Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
31. Shennan, S. J. (Ed.). (2009). Pattern and process in cultural evolution. Berkeley: University of California.
32. Shennan, S. J., & Wilkinson, J. R. (2001). Ceramic style change and neutral evolution: a case study from Neolithic Europe. American Antiquity, 66, 577-593.
33. Straus, L. G. (2013). After the deep freeze: confronting "Magdalenian" realities in Cantabrian Spain and beyond. Journal of Archeological Method and Theory, 20.
34. Théry, F. (2010). Le concept de mécanisme en biologie. Perspectives historique et épistémologique. Philosciences. com (www. philosciences. com/Vivant/Mécanisme. html).
35. Valentin, B. (2008). Jalons pour une paléohistoire des derniers chasseurs: (XIVe-VIe millénaire avant J.-C.). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne.
36. Wylie, A. (2002). Thinking from things: essays in the philosophy of archaeology. Berkeley: University of California Press.