James R Sackett
Biographic Data
| ID | 109991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James R Sackett |
| GIVEN NAMES | James R |
| FAMILY NAME | Sackett |
| SIGNATURE | SACKETT J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1817-651X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 396 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
François Bordes and the Old Stone Age
This is a highly personal description of the character and work of the great French archaeologist François Bordes, with whom Sackett worked for over twenty years. A native of France’s Perigord region, the prehistory of which he explored for most of his career, Bordes regarded himself as a ‘journeyman field worker’ or ‘homme de terrain’. However his contributions to Palaeolithic archaeology had an impact on the whole of the prehistory of Eurasia a…
François Bordes and the Old Stone Age
This is a highly personal description of the character and work of the great French archaeologist François Bordes, with whom Sackett worked for over twenty years. A native of France’s Perigord region, the prehistory of which he explored for most of his career, Bordes regarded himself as a ‘journeyman field worker’ or ‘homme de terrain’. However his contributions to Palaeolithic archaeology had an impact on the whole of the prehistory of Eurasia a…
The Role of American Archeologists in the Study of the European Upper Paleolithic . Lawrence G. Straus
Human antiquity and the Old Stone Age
Human antiquity and the Old Stone Age
Obituaries
Neanderthal Behaviour
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Style, Society, and Person
Men among the Mammoths
Archaeology
Le tas de Beaufort au Plateau Parrain, (Commune de Saint- Front-de-Pradoux, Dordogne)
Le Tas de Beaufort est un amas de galets et de silex découvert sur le Plateau Parrain à quelque 40 mètres du fond de tente magdalénien fouillé en 1960. Les galets (grès, dolentes et surtout quartz) sont presque tous fracturés et rubéfiés. Le matériel en silex (Magdalénien moyen probable) est caractérisé par un outillage où prédominent les burins et où sont absents les esquilles et les menus déchets. Cette formation ne peut être ni une décharge do…
Lithic Illustration
Statistics, Attributes, and the Dynamics of Burin Typology
Exploring the dynamics of typological patterning in stone tools requires analytic approaches for quantitatively manipulating attributes. Building upon the work of A. Spaulding, the present author, and many others, this paper outlines one such approach based upon contingency table analysis, which is designed to meet the needs of the practicing lithic typologist while calling for little statistical expertise. Its use is illustrated by an examinatio…
La "New Archaeology"
Isochrestism and style
Style, Function, and Assemblage Variability
Binford's characterization of the isochrestic model of style seriously misrepresents it, particularly with regard to the assemblage variability problem. Here his criticisms are answered, the real argument of the model reviewed, and the reasons for his misrepresentation explored. It may be pertinent to the latter that the model has been presented in conjunction with a strong critique of his own work on style, which remains unanswered. Equally rele…
Style and Ethnicity in the Kalahari
Wiessner's analysis of stylistic variation in San arrows entails valuable ethnoarchaeological observation and insight. But her evidence contradicts the iconological theory she imposes upon it, whereby San artisans are thought to purposefully invest their products with ethnic symbolism in order to transmit social information to various target populations. However, an alternative view, according to which the arrows simply exhibit the ethnic style l…
Approaches to style in lithic archaeology
Archeology
Neanderthal Man and Homo sapiens in Central and Eastern Europe [and Comments and Reply]
This paper is a review of the fossil evidence bearing upon the problem of the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens and his relationship to Neanderthal Man, with special attention to the finds from Central and Eastern Europe, less well-known to the international community than those of Western Europe and elsewhere. Emphasis is placed on new discoveries supplementing the existing network of finds and on the reinterpretation of earlier finds through…
Archeology
Factor Analysis and Artifact Typology
The general utility of r-mode factor analyses for screening and ordering artifact characteristics is severely restricted by the presence of nominal categories in typological attribute systems. Even where a correlation coefficient appropriate to qualitative data can be used, factor analysis generates spurious correlations stemming from the interdependencies that nominal attributes usually share. The resulting factors may also obscure or distort th…
Archeology
Quantitative Analysis of Upper Paleolithic Stone Tools
Archeology
Approaches to style in lithic archaeology
Style and Ethnicity in the Kalahari
Wiessner's analysis of stylistic variation in San arrows entails valuable ethnoarchaeological observation and insight. But her evidence contradicts the iconological theory she imposes upon it, whereby San artisans are thought to purposefully invest their products with ethnic symbolism in order to transmit social information to various target populations. However, an alternative view, according to which the arrows simply exhibit the ethnic style l…
Quantitative Analysis of Upper Paleolithic Stone Tools
Neanderthal Man and Homo sapiens in Central and Eastern Europe [and Comments and Reply]
This paper is a review of the fossil evidence bearing upon the problem of the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens and his relationship to Neanderthal Man, with special attention to the finds from Central and Eastern Europe, less well-known to the international community than those of Western Europe and elsewhere. Emphasis is placed on new discoveries supplementing the existing network of finds and on the reinterpretation of earlier finds through…
Style, Function, and Assemblage Variability
Binford's characterization of the isochrestic model of style seriously misrepresents it, particularly with regard to the assemblage variability problem. Here his criticisms are answered, the real argument of the model reviewed, and the reasons for his misrepresentation explored. It may be pertinent to the latter that the model has been presented in conjunction with a strong critique of his own work on style, which remains unanswered. Equally rele…
Factor Analysis and Artifact Typology
The general utility of r-mode factor analyses for screening and ordering artifact characteristics is severely restricted by the presence of nominal categories in typological attribute systems. Even where a correlation coefficient appropriate to qualitative data can be used, factor analysis generates spurious correlations stemming from the interdependencies that nominal attributes usually share. The resulting factors may also obscure or distort th…
François Bordes and the Old Stone Age
This is a highly personal description of the character and work of the great French archaeologist François Bordes, with whom Sackett worked for over twenty years. A native of France’s Perigord region, the prehistory of which he explored for most of his career, Bordes regarded himself as a ‘journeyman field worker’ or ‘homme de terrain’. However his contributions to Palaeolithic archaeology had an impact on the whole of the prehistory of Eurasia a…
Obituaries
Neanderthal Behaviour
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Statistics, Attributes, and the Dynamics of Burin Typology
Exploring the dynamics of typological patterning in stone tools requires analytic approaches for quantitatively manipulating attributes. Building upon the work of A. Spaulding, the present author, and many others, this paper outlines one such approach based upon contingency table analysis, which is designed to meet the needs of the practicing lithic typologist while calling for little statistical expertise. Its use is illustrated by an examinatio…
Archeology
Quantitative Analysis of Upper Paleolithic Stone Tools
Archeology
Neanderthal Man and Homo sapiens in Central and Eastern Europe [and Comments and Reply]
This paper is a review of the fossil evidence bearing upon the problem of the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens and his relationship to Neanderthal Man, with special attention to the finds from Central and Eastern Europe, less well-known to the international community than those of Western Europe and elsewhere. Emphasis is placed on new discoveries supplementing the existing network of finds and on the reinterpretation of earlier finds through…
Archeology
Factor Analysis and Artifact Typology
The general utility of r-mode factor analyses for screening and ordering artifact characteristics is severely restricted by the presence of nominal categories in typological attribute systems. Even where a correlation coefficient appropriate to qualitative data can be used, factor analysis generates spurious correlations stemming from the interdependencies that nominal attributes usually share. The resulting factors may also obscure or distort th…
Archeology
Approaches to style in lithic archaeology
Style and Ethnicity in the Kalahari
Wiessner's analysis of stylistic variation in San arrows entails valuable ethnoarchaeological observation and insight. But her evidence contradicts the iconological theory she imposes upon it, whereby San artisans are thought to purposefully invest their products with ethnic symbolism in order to transmit social information to various target populations. However, an alternative view, according to which the arrows simply exhibit the ethnic style l…
La "New Archaeology"
Isochrestism and style
Style, Function, and Assemblage Variability
Binford's characterization of the isochrestic model of style seriously misrepresents it, particularly with regard to the assemblage variability problem. Here his criticisms are answered, the real argument of the model reviewed, and the reasons for his misrepresentation explored. It may be pertinent to the latter that the model has been presented in conjunction with a strong critique of his own work on style, which remains unanswered. Equally rele…
Statistics, Attributes, and the Dynamics of Burin Typology
Exploring the dynamics of typological patterning in stone tools requires analytic approaches for quantitatively manipulating attributes. Building upon the work of A. Spaulding, the present author, and many others, this paper outlines one such approach based upon contingency table analysis, which is designed to meet the needs of the practicing lithic typologist while calling for little statistical expertise. Its use is illustrated by an examinatio…
Le tas de Beaufort au Plateau Parrain, (Commune de Saint- Front-de-Pradoux, Dordogne)
Le Tas de Beaufort est un amas de galets et de silex découvert sur le Plateau Parrain à quelque 40 mètres du fond de tente magdalénien fouillé en 1960. Les galets (grès, dolentes et surtout quartz) sont presque tous fracturés et rubéfiés. Le matériel en silex (Magdalénien moyen probable) est caractérisé par un outillage où prédominent les burins et où sont absents les esquilles et les menus déchets. Cette formation ne peut être ni une décharge do…
Lithic Illustration
Archaeology
Men among the Mammoths
Style, Society, and Person
Neanderthal Behaviour
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Obituaries
Human antiquity and the Old Stone Age
Human antiquity and the Old Stone Age
The Role of American Archeologists in the Study of the European Upper Paleolithic . Lawrence G. Straus
François Bordes and the Old Stone Age
This is a highly personal description of the character and work of the great French archaeologist François Bordes, with whom Sackett worked for over twenty years. A native of France’s Perigord region, the prehistory of which he explored for most of his career, Bordes regarded himself as a ‘journeyman field worker’ or ‘homme de terrain’. However his contributions to Palaeolithic archaeology had an impact on the whole of the prehistory of Eurasia a…
François Bordes and the Old Stone Age
This is a highly personal description of the character and work of the great French archaeologist François Bordes, with whom Sackett worked for over twenty years. A native of France’s Perigord region, the prehistory of which he explored for most of his career, Bordes regarded himself as a ‘journeyman field worker’ or ‘homme de terrain’. However his contributions to Palaeolithic archaeology had an impact on the whole of the prehistory of Eurasia a…
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