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Article: Behavioral Archaeology: First Principles.
- Article from:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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Michael Schiffer, one of the founders and the pre-eminent exponent of the behavioural archaeology movement in America, notes that after twenty-five years this movement lacked a book-length survey of its basic principles that was appropriate for scholarly study. The present work is intended to fill that gap. It begins with an autobiographical sketch of Schiffer's career in archaeology, which also traces the history of behavioural archaeology, and concludes with a useful catechism of behavioural archaeology's principles, postulates and tenets. In between, twenty-one chapters reproduce in whole or part works published by Schiffer (four of them co-authored) between 1972 and ...