Robert D Leonard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 187030 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert D Leonard |
| PRENOMES | Robert D |
| SOBRENOME | Leonard |
| ASSINATURA | LEONARD R D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 294 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
What Is Evolution? A Response to Bamforth
Douglas Bamforth's recent paper in American Antiquity, “Evidence and Metaphor in Evolutionary Archaeology,” charges that Darwinism has little to offer archaeology except in a metaphorical sense. Specifically, Bamforth claims that arguments that allegedly link evolutionary processes to the archaeological record are unsustainable. Given Bamforth's narrow view of evolution—that it must be defined strictly in terms of changes in gene frequency—he is …
Specialized Ground Stone Production in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Chihuahua, Mexico
Previous research has identified specialized production of prestige goods during the Medio period (A.D. 1200-1450) in the Casas Grandes region of northwestern Mexico and the American Southwest. We evaluate the organization of production of two functionally equivalent types of trough metates from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico, using the standardization hypothesis, i.e., the premise that products produced by specialists have less variation than those …
Models, Definitions, and Stylistic Variation
Ortman's comments concerning the evolutionary archaeology model of style in his study of the textile metaphor in Mesa Verde pottery designs are based upon a misunderstanding of the assumptions of the neutral model of style. We clarify these assumptions and explain why Ortman's study is not a test of the model
Flaked Stone and Social Interaction in the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico
This analysis uses flaked stone artifacts to gain insight into the social and economic structure of the Casas Grandes region, northern Chihuahua, Mexico. It begins by considering the intrasite variation in flaked stone reduction at Galeana, a large site near the modern town of Galeana. The analysis of debitage and cores from Galeana indicates that the assemblage is primarily the product of hard hammer, generalized reduction of locally available m…
U New Mexico for the Record
Basic Incompatibilities between Evolutionary and Behavioral Archaeology
Schiffer (1996) recently proposed that, despite some incompatibilities, considerable common ground exists between behavioral archaeology and evolutionary, or selectionist, archaeology. He concludes that there is no fundamental reason why the two approaches cannot work in concert to explain human behavioral change. There are, however, several important reasons why the two programs, at least as currently conceived, cannot work together in any thoro…
The Sample Size-Richness Relation
Plog and Hegmon (1993) focus on my research (Leonard 1989) on Black Mesa, Arizona, faunal assemblages as part of a broader critique of the work of a number of researchers who consider the effects of sample size on assemblage richness values. I suggest that their critique is problematic for a number of reasons, primarily statistical, but also because they do not provide an alternative hypothesis for the observed pattern
Explaining the Change from Biface to Flake Technology
Theory, Models, Explanation, and the Record
We believe that most of Kohler and Sebastian’s concerns regarding our research are attributable to differences in how we perceive the relations between theory, models, explanation, and the archaeological record. Other differences we attribute to misunderstandings of both our work and selectionist theory in general. We finally conclude that differences in our opinions on these issues represent broader problems in our discipline
Ancestral pueblo population aggregation and abandonment in the North American Southwest
The Ancient Southwestern Community
The Ancient southwestern community
Population Aggregation in the Prehistoric American Southwest
The settlement practices of the prehistoric Anasazi of the North American Southwest exhibited shifts from the occupation of dispersed settlements to aggregated villages in many locales both concurrently and at different times. Explaining the nature and timing of these shifts has long been a focus of interest to researchers working in the Southwest. We present a model that outlines the relations among population growth, population dispersion and a…
The relationship between sample size and diversity in archaeological assemblages
Quantifying Archaeology
Archeology
What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]
The Anasazi in a Changing Environment
Qualifying Diversity in Archaeology
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
Resource Specialization, Population Growth, and Agricultural Production in the American Southwest
The prehistoric period of the northern American Southwest is characterized by increased population, increased agricultural production, and regional depopulation. Most current models of evolutionary change that attempt to explain these phenomena are defined at the scale of 'culture' or of a specific adaptation, e.g., 'Anasazi adaptive system.' I suggest that for most purposes these are not productive constructs, and that their application makes us…
News and Short Contributions
Incremental Sampling in Artifact Analysis
Material remains recovered from archaeological excavations are often sent to a number of specialists for analysis. A procedure is introduced that serves as an aid in assuring sampling consistency across all specialist analyses. This procedure also allows researchers to incorporate both randomly and judgmentally selected sampling units in some analyses
Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model for archaeology
Archeology
Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model for archaeology
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
The relationship between sample size and diversity in archaeological assemblages
Ancestral pueblo population aggregation and abandonment in the North American Southwest
Population Aggregation in the Prehistoric American Southwest
The settlement practices of the prehistoric Anasazi of the North American Southwest exhibited shifts from the occupation of dispersed settlements to aggregated villages in many locales both concurrently and at different times. Explaining the nature and timing of these shifts has long been a focus of interest to researchers working in the Southwest. We present a model that outlines the relations among population growth, population dispersion and a…
What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]
Specialized Ground Stone Production in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Chihuahua, Mexico
Previous research has identified specialized production of prestige goods during the Medio period (A.D. 1200-1450) in the Casas Grandes region of northwestern Mexico and the American Southwest. We evaluate the organization of production of two functionally equivalent types of trough metates from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico, using the standardization hypothesis, i.e., the premise that products produced by specialists have less variation than those …
News and Short Contributions
Basic Incompatibilities between Evolutionary and Behavioral Archaeology
Schiffer (1996) recently proposed that, despite some incompatibilities, considerable common ground exists between behavioral archaeology and evolutionary, or selectionist, archaeology. He concludes that there is no fundamental reason why the two approaches cannot work in concert to explain human behavioral change. There are, however, several important reasons why the two programs, at least as currently conceived, cannot work together in any thoro…
Resource Specialization, Population Growth, and Agricultural Production in the American Southwest
The prehistoric period of the northern American Southwest is characterized by increased population, increased agricultural production, and regional depopulation. Most current models of evolutionary change that attempt to explain these phenomena are defined at the scale of 'culture' or of a specific adaptation, e.g., 'Anasazi adaptive system.' I suggest that for most purposes these are not productive constructs, and that their application makes us…
Flaked Stone and Social Interaction in the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico
This analysis uses flaked stone artifacts to gain insight into the social and economic structure of the Casas Grandes region, northern Chihuahua, Mexico. It begins by considering the intrasite variation in flaked stone reduction at Galeana, a large site near the modern town of Galeana. The analysis of debitage and cores from Galeana indicates that the assemblage is primarily the product of hard hammer, generalized reduction of locally available m…
What Is Evolution? A Response to Bamforth
Douglas Bamforth's recent paper in American Antiquity, “Evidence and Metaphor in Evolutionary Archaeology,” charges that Darwinism has little to offer archaeology except in a metaphorical sense. Specifically, Bamforth claims that arguments that allegedly link evolutionary processes to the archaeological record are unsustainable. Given Bamforth's narrow view of evolution—that it must be defined strictly in terms of changes in gene frequency—he is …
The Sample Size-Richness Relation
Plog and Hegmon (1993) focus on my research (Leonard 1989) on Black Mesa, Arizona, faunal assemblages as part of a broader critique of the work of a number of researchers who consider the effects of sample size on assemblage richness values. I suggest that their critique is problematic for a number of reasons, primarily statistical, but also because they do not provide an alternative hypothesis for the observed pattern
Incremental Sampling in Artifact Analysis
Material remains recovered from archaeological excavations are often sent to a number of specialists for analysis. A procedure is introduced that serves as an aid in assuring sampling consistency across all specialist analyses. This procedure also allows researchers to incorporate both randomly and judgmentally selected sampling units in some analyses
Models, Definitions, and Stylistic Variation
Ortman's comments concerning the evolutionary archaeology model of style in his study of the textile metaphor in Mesa Verde pottery designs are based upon a misunderstanding of the assumptions of the neutral model of style. We clarify these assumptions and explain why Ortman's study is not a test of the model
Theory, Models, Explanation, and the Record
We believe that most of Kohler and Sebastian’s concerns regarding our research are attributable to differences in how we perceive the relations between theory, models, explanation, and the archaeological record. Other differences we attribute to misunderstandings of both our work and selectionist theory in general. We finally conclude that differences in our opinions on these issues represent broader problems in our discipline
Archeology
News and Short Contributions
Incremental Sampling in Artifact Analysis
Material remains recovered from archaeological excavations are often sent to a number of specialists for analysis. A procedure is introduced that serves as an aid in assuring sampling consistency across all specialist analyses. This procedure also allows researchers to incorporate both randomly and judgmentally selected sampling units in some analyses
Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model for archaeology
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
Resource Specialization, Population Growth, and Agricultural Production in the American Southwest
The prehistoric period of the northern American Southwest is characterized by increased population, increased agricultural production, and regional depopulation. Most current models of evolutionary change that attempt to explain these phenomena are defined at the scale of 'culture' or of a specific adaptation, e.g., 'Anasazi adaptive system.' I suggest that for most purposes these are not productive constructs, and that their application makes us…
The Anasazi in a Changing Environment
Qualifying Diversity in Archaeology
Quantifying Archaeology
Archeology
What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]
The relationship between sample size and diversity in archaeological assemblages
Population Aggregation in the Prehistoric American Southwest
The settlement practices of the prehistoric Anasazi of the North American Southwest exhibited shifts from the occupation of dispersed settlements to aggregated villages in many locales both concurrently and at different times. Explaining the nature and timing of these shifts has long been a focus of interest to researchers working in the Southwest. We present a model that outlines the relations among population growth, population dispersion and a…
The Ancient southwestern community
Explaining the Change from Biface to Flake Technology
Theory, Models, Explanation, and the Record
We believe that most of Kohler and Sebastian’s concerns regarding our research are attributable to differences in how we perceive the relations between theory, models, explanation, and the archaeological record. Other differences we attribute to misunderstandings of both our work and selectionist theory in general. We finally conclude that differences in our opinions on these issues represent broader problems in our discipline
Ancestral pueblo population aggregation and abandonment in the North American Southwest
The Ancient Southwestern Community
The Sample Size-Richness Relation
Plog and Hegmon (1993) focus on my research (Leonard 1989) on Black Mesa, Arizona, faunal assemblages as part of a broader critique of the work of a number of researchers who consider the effects of sample size on assemblage richness values. I suggest that their critique is problematic for a number of reasons, primarily statistical, but also because they do not provide an alternative hypothesis for the observed pattern
U New Mexico for the Record
Basic Incompatibilities between Evolutionary and Behavioral Archaeology
Schiffer (1996) recently proposed that, despite some incompatibilities, considerable common ground exists between behavioral archaeology and evolutionary, or selectionist, archaeology. He concludes that there is no fundamental reason why the two approaches cannot work in concert to explain human behavioral change. There are, however, several important reasons why the two programs, at least as currently conceived, cannot work together in any thoro…
Flaked Stone and Social Interaction in the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico
This analysis uses flaked stone artifacts to gain insight into the social and economic structure of the Casas Grandes region, northern Chihuahua, Mexico. It begins by considering the intrasite variation in flaked stone reduction at Galeana, a large site near the modern town of Galeana. The analysis of debitage and cores from Galeana indicates that the assemblage is primarily the product of hard hammer, generalized reduction of locally available m…
Models, Definitions, and Stylistic Variation
Ortman's comments concerning the evolutionary archaeology model of style in his study of the textile metaphor in Mesa Verde pottery designs are based upon a misunderstanding of the assumptions of the neutral model of style. We clarify these assumptions and explain why Ortman's study is not a test of the model
Specialized Ground Stone Production in the Casas Grandes Region of Northern Chihuahua, Mexico
Previous research has identified specialized production of prestige goods during the Medio period (A.D. 1200-1450) in the Casas Grandes region of northwestern Mexico and the American Southwest. We evaluate the organization of production of two functionally equivalent types of trough metates from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico, using the standardization hypothesis, i.e., the premise that products produced by specialists have less variation than those …
What Is Evolution? A Response to Bamforth
Douglas Bamforth's recent paper in American Antiquity, “Evidence and Metaphor in Evolutionary Archaeology,” charges that Darwinism has little to offer archaeology except in a metaphorical sense. Specifically, Bamforth claims that arguments that allegedly link evolutionary processes to the archaeological record are unsustainable. Given Bamforth's narrow view of evolution—that it must be defined strictly in terms of changes in gene frequency—he is …
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