Whitney M Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Whitney M Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Whitney M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS W M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan. Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]
Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…
Plato on Egyptian Art
Plato on Egyptian Art
On the Argument From Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence From Medieval Nubia [and Comments and Reply]
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Dating Prehistoric Rock Drawings in Upper Egypt and Nubia
The Ascension-Myth in the Pyramid Texts
The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art
The compositions and arrangements of predynastic art are widely supposed to be chaotic, and the formal ordering of the historic period is often taken to be the major point of separation between predynastic and early dynastic art. A strict division between Egypt's dynastic art and the art of its prehistory is thus frequently accepted. The paper takes issue with this thesis, for it supposes that there is much more of a link between prehistoric and …
Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]
Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…
On the Argument From Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence From Medieval Nubia [and Comments and Reply]
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art
The compositions and arrangements of predynastic art are widely supposed to be chaotic, and the formal ordering of the historic period is often taken to be the major point of separation between predynastic and early dynastic art. A strict division between Egypt's dynastic art and the art of its prehistory is thus frequently accepted. The paper takes issue with this thesis, for it supposes that there is much more of a link between prehistoric and …
Dating Prehistoric Rock Drawings in Upper Egypt and Nubia
The Origins of Register Composition in Predynastic Egyptian Art
The compositions and arrangements of predynastic art are widely supposed to be chaotic, and the formal ordering of the historic period is often taken to be the major point of separation between predynastic and early dynastic art. A strict division between Egypt's dynastic art and the art of its prehistory is thus frequently accepted. The paper takes issue with this thesis, for it supposes that there is much more of a link between prehistoric and …
The Ascension-Myth in the Pyramid Texts
Dating Prehistoric Rock Drawings in Upper Egypt and Nubia
Plato on Egyptian Art
Plato on Egyptian Art
On the Argument From Ceramics to History: A Challenge Based on Evidence From Medieval Nubia [and Comments and Reply]
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Egypt, Samos, and the Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture
Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply]
Harris's cultural materialistic strategy of research must be more explicit in recognizing that it deals with nonlinear events that are constantly modified by natural-selective processes. These processes require a different kind of explanation, called here "selection explanation." Moreover, the tripartite notion of infrastructure/structure/superstructure and the mental/behavioral, emic/etic, and culture/nature dichotomies do not allow unambiguous …
Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production: A Trial Model [and Comments and Reply]
Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…
Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan. Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980
History (11 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Classics (4 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)