Intended to help the reader learn how to think like an archaeologist. This book includes activities that challenge readers to interpret and explain field findings and help them to see the link between theory and practice. Topics include stratigraphy, seriation, modes of production, divisions of labor, social reproduction, and class struggle and resistance. For those interested in discovering the history of contemporary social structures.

The Theory and Practice of Archaeology: A Workbook (2nd Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Patterson, Thomas C.

Social Sciences

Taylor&Francis

Exploring the historical development of civilizations, this text examines the rise of social class structures and state-based societies. It covers the theory and practice of archaeology, and looks at specific sites, including Mesopotamia, Central and South Asia, the Far East, Europe, North America, more. for archeologists and all those interested in the study of archaeology.

Archaeology: The Historical Development of Civilizations

Anthropology

Pearson College Div

The Theory and Practice of Archaeology: A Workbook

For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods. Intended for the Introductory Archaeology course with the goal of teaching students how to think like archaeologists, this workbook includes activities that challenge students to interpret and explain field findings and help them to see the link between theory and practice.

Routledge

Shows students how archaeologists work by providing simulation exercises typically engaged in by real professionals.

The Theory & Practice of Archaeology: A Workbook

Archaeology

PRENTICE/HALL

A new edition to the CASE STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY series, this inventive introductory text discusses the development of archaeology in the United States. Rather than presenting archaeology as an unfolding natural process, Professor Patterson discusses the traditional uses of archaeology in validating other fields as well as its function in shaping U.S. society. Features: * Introduces students to the problems encountered by archaeologists as they work to incorporate differences in class, gender, race and ethnicity. * Examines archaeological inquiry prior to its professionalization in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as the formation of museum-centred and driven archaeology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. * Each chapter begins with an analysis of social and historical conditions that relate to archaeology. * Extensive bibliography provides additional references for students.

Toward a Social History of Archaeology in the United States

Harcourt College Pub.

America's Past: A New World Archaeology.

Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company (1973)

Social Change Theories in Motion: Explaining the Past, Understanding the Present, Envisioning the Future

This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism. It situates them in the milieu in which they wrote. They were never neutral observers standing outside the conditions they were trying to explain. Their arguments were responses to those circumstances and to the views of others commentators, living and dead. Some repeated earlier views; others built on those perspectives; a few changed the way we think. While surveying earlier writers, the author’s primary concerns are theorists who sought to explain industrialization, imperialism, and the consolidation of nation-states after 1840. Marx, Durkheim, and Weber still shape our understandings of the past, present, and future. Patterson focuses on explanations of the unsettled conditions that crystallized in the 1910s and still persist: the rise of socialist states, anti-colonial movements, prolonged economic crises, and almost continuous war. After 1945, theorists in capitalist countries, influenced by Cold War politics, saw social change in terms of economic growth, progress, and modernization; their contemporaries elsewhere wrote about underdevelopment, dependency, or uneven development. In the 1980s, theorists of postmodernity, neoliberalism, globalization, innovations in communications technologies, and post-socialism argued that they rendered earlier accounts insufficient. Others saw them as manifestations of a new imperialism, capitalist accumulation on a global scale, environmental crises, and nationalist populism.

Social Change Theories in Motion

Every aspect of this growing field is covered from descriptions of aquatic plants and animals to in-depth coverate of the economics and management of the aquaculture industry. Extensive coverage of water requirement, nutritional fundamentals and diseases common to aquaculture are included.

Lab Manual to Accompany Aquaculture Science (Agricuture Series))

Science & Math

Parker, Ph.D. Rick

Biological Sciences

Delmar/Cengage Learning

"In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society." --Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe. He lays out clearly and simply how civilization, with its designs of "civilizing" and "being civilized," has been closely tied to the rise of capitalism in Western Europe and the development of social classes.

Inventing Western Civilization (Suffolk Records Society)

History

World

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