A Martin Byers
Biographic Data
| ID | 325498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Martin Byers |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Byers |
| SIGNATURE | BYERS A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanier College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville
Contradictions of Archaeological Theory
Keywords: archaeological theorycritical realismemergenceirrealismmaterial culturepositivismpost-positivismrelativism
Hopewell settlement patterns, subsistence, and symbolic landscapes
Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes
Cahokia
Cahokia is located in the northern expanse of the American Bottom, the largest of the Mississippian flood plains, and opposite St. Louis, Missouri. This book overturns the current political characterization of this largest known North American prehistoric site north of Mexico. Rather than treating Cahokia as the seat of a dominant Native American polity, a “paramount chiefdom”, the book argues that it must be given a religious characterization as…
Synthesizing Hopewell Archaeology
Once every generation or so, a major volume has appeared that has made a profound difference in the way both the archaeological profession and the general public thinks about Hopewell in eastern North America. In the 1960s, Caldwell and Hall produced an edited volume entitled Hopewellian Studies that widely introduced the concept of a Hopewell interaction sphere. In the late 1970s, Brose and Greber's Hopewellian Archaeology: The Chillicothe Confe…
Communication and Material Culture
The gesture-call practices of early hominids were of a different order from those of their primate relatives, the ancestors of present day apes. The Tool-Cue Model postulates how our ancestors might have used tools both as functional instruments and as icons. The central thesis of the model treats communication as action systems mediated by signs, the central communicative action being the action cue: a communicative act that requires further beh…
Intentionality, Symbolic Pragmatics, and Material Culture
I examine how a cognitive archaeology may best be advanced by focusing on Intentionality, the mental property that acts as the causal interface in the human-world interaction. I call this approach symbolic pragmatics. The argument is that, through style as the symbolic medium, material culture is endowed by its users with a form of derived Intentionality that is expressively imposed on it in the moment of usage. The central heuristic is the notio…
Symboling and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition
The Action‐Constitutive Theory of Monuments
Structure, Meaning, Action and Things
Symboling and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition
Structure, Meaning, Action and Things
Communication and Material Culture
The gesture-call practices of early hominids were of a different order from those of their primate relatives, the ancestors of present day apes. The Tool-Cue Model postulates how our ancestors might have used tools both as functional instruments and as icons. The central thesis of the model treats communication as action systems mediated by signs, the central communicative action being the action cue: a communicative act that requires further beh…
Cahokia
Cahokia is located in the northern expanse of the American Bottom, the largest of the Mississippian flood plains, and opposite St. Louis, Missouri. This book overturns the current political characterization of this largest known North American prehistoric site north of Mexico. Rather than treating Cahokia as the seat of a dominant Native American polity, a “paramount chiefdom”, the book argues that it must be given a religious characterization as…
The Action‐Constitutive Theory of Monuments
Intentionality, Symbolic Pragmatics, and Material Culture
I examine how a cognitive archaeology may best be advanced by focusing on Intentionality, the mental property that acts as the causal interface in the human-world interaction. I call this approach symbolic pragmatics. The argument is that, through style as the symbolic medium, material culture is endowed by its users with a form of derived Intentionality that is expressively imposed on it in the moment of usage. The central heuristic is the notio…
Structure, Meaning, Action and Things
The Action‐Constitutive Theory of Monuments
Symboling and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Transition
Communication and Material Culture
The gesture-call practices of early hominids were of a different order from those of their primate relatives, the ancestors of present day apes. The Tool-Cue Model postulates how our ancestors might have used tools both as functional instruments and as icons. The central thesis of the model treats communication as action systems mediated by signs, the central communicative action being the action cue: a communicative act that requires further beh…
Intentionality, Symbolic Pragmatics, and Material Culture
I examine how a cognitive archaeology may best be advanced by focusing on Intentionality, the mental property that acts as the causal interface in the human-world interaction. I call this approach symbolic pragmatics. The argument is that, through style as the symbolic medium, material culture is endowed by its users with a form of derived Intentionality that is expressively imposed on it in the moment of usage. The central heuristic is the notio…
Cahokia
Cahokia is located in the northern expanse of the American Bottom, the largest of the Mississippian flood plains, and opposite St. Louis, Missouri. This book overturns the current political characterization of this largest known North American prehistoric site north of Mexico. Rather than treating Cahokia as the seat of a dominant Native American polity, a “paramount chiefdom”, the book argues that it must be given a religious characterization as…
Synthesizing Hopewell Archaeology
Once every generation or so, a major volume has appeared that has made a profound difference in the way both the archaeological profession and the general public thinks about Hopewell in eastern North America. In the 1960s, Caldwell and Hall produced an edited volume entitled Hopewellian Studies that widely introduced the concept of a Hopewell interaction sphere. In the late 1970s, Brose and Greber's Hopewellian Archaeology: The Chillicothe Confe…
Hopewell settlement patterns, subsistence, and symbolic landscapes
Hopewell Settlement Patterns, Subsistence, and Symbolic Landscapes
Contradictions of Archaeological Theory
Keywords: archaeological theorycritical realismemergenceirrealismmaterial culturepositivismpost-positivismrelativism
From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville
History (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Antiquities (3 works)