Ezra B W Zubrow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 183479 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ezra B W Zubrow |
| PRENOMES | Ezra B W |
| SOBRENOME | Zubrow |
| ASSINATURA | ZUBROW E B W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6450-1803 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 202 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A Prolegomenon on Archaeological Complexity and Disorganization
Prehistoric human responses to volcanic tephra fall events in the Ust-Kamchatsk region, Kamchatka Peninsula (Kamchatsky Krai, Russian Federation) during the middle to late Holocene (6000–500 cal BP)
Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge
A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork in the Kamchatka Region of Russia
Matthias, Pepys, Longfellow, Sissy Spacek, and Me
Imagine a corked bottle with a message in it floating south on currents of the Arctic Ocean. The bottle is picked up, the message read, the bottle re-corked and put back in the water. Similarly, there are fragments of a culture that float across time and space and are incorporated into a variety of societies. This is the narrative of a fragment of Lapp culture first recorded in the 1670s that drifted through a variety of European cultures and eve…
Why excavate? Triaging the excavation of archaeological sites
The issue is not 'why excavate?', nor is it whether or not to excavate sites. Nor is it the numerous ancillary considerations mentioned at the round table and in the papers - too many sites, too few resources, too large a backlog of unpublished sites, or saving sites for future techniques. All - excavators, archaeologists, curators and cultural heritage managers - would agree. If there is a unique world-class site that will be destroyed in a few …
An interactive growth model applied to the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic populations
Ancient Mind
Remote Sensing, Fractals, and Cultural Landscapes
Chimpanzee material culture
It is a truism to say that behaviour and ideas do not fossilize. Hence, reconstruction of the origins of culture depends on artefacts and other remnants, the use and meaning of which are then inferred. Such inference may seem simple in principle but it is difficult in practice, for several reasons: first, cultural objects are not always distinguishable from natural ones; second, only a subset of enduring objects remains while perishable ones have…
Changing places
Rummidge and Euphoria are places on the map of a comic world which resembles the one We are standing on without corresponding exactly to it, and which is peopled by figments of the imagination
The Ancient Mind
The Ancient Mind
Foreword Part I. Introduction: 1. Towards a cognitive archaeology Part II. The Interdisciplinary Underpinning: 2. Interpretations and testability in theories about prehistoric thinking 3. Archaeology and cognitive science 4. From mental modularity to generalized intelligence: a cognitive interpretation of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition 5. Are images animated? The psychology of images in Ancient Greece Part III. Approaches to Cult Practic…
The Ancient Mind
One of the most troubling problems in archaeology is to determine the manner and content of prehistoric thought. A fundamental challenge is to develop the theory, methodology and tools to understand human cognition. Cognitive archaeology as a subject is still in its infancy, and archaeologists are adopting a variety of approaches. One direction has been to develop an 'interpretationist', anti-scientific, literary approach. Another has been to use…
Knowledge representation and archaeology
Introduction There is an apocryphal story about a famous archaeologist who was excavating an Arikara graveyard. Based on previous work, he believed that the Arikara interred the dead in a systematic manner. He suggested that graves were located in a pattern analogous to a checkerboard. Excavating every third square produced nothing for the entire season. The archaeologist was frustrated. During the last day, a crew member suggested they excavate …
Cognitive archaeology reconsidered
What is cognitive archaeology? There are two major aspects to cognitive archaeology. First, cognitive archaeology is a rather loosely-defined area including the evolution of the whole complex system of human mental abilities and their material representations. Second, there is a facet which considers how cognitive processes impact the archaeologists who do archaeology. The first aspect focuses on what can be learned about perception, attention, l…
Goodbye Columbus
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The depopulation of native America
The replacement, for the most part, of native American populations by immigrants in the centuries after 1492 is one of the great demographic shifts of the modern world. It is fundamental for American archaeology, of course, and makes the background for acute moral and ethical issues, which will become more visible as the 500th anniversary of the Columbus landfall nears
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
Slag as evidence for early iron production in arctic Norway
Physical, structural and chemical analyses were made on slag remains obtained from three sites in Iron Age arctic Norway. Scanning electron microscopy and x‐ray microanalysis were employed to confirm that the slag can only be a result of iron production. Although a distinction between slag produced by smithing and smelting proved difficult, consideration of the processes and the resources available support the assumption that both were practiced …
Up on the prehistoric farm
Rindos, David. The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1984. xvii + 324 pp. including bibliography and index. $32.50 cloth
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca
Archaeological data from a regional settlement pattern survey of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, are used to monitor how scarce goods and resources were allocated to members of society through eight phases from 600 B.C. to A.D. 1520. The goal is to determine how distinct historical social structures performed economically in terms of the goods and resources recoverable archaeologically. Measures utilized include land use and settlement characterist…
Demographic Anthropology. Quantitative approaches
International trends in theoretical archaeology
This paper considers the international spread of theoretical archaeology. It examines the general processes that have defined the history of archaeology. Three questions are explored. What is the status of theoretical archaeology? Is its acceptance dependent upon geographic location? In what theoretical directions will it move in the 1980s? The paper shows that the status and acceptance are dependent upon geographic location and predicts that, as…
Demographic Anthropology
Ancient Mind
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
Carrying Capacity and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Prehistoric Southwest
A model of carrying capacity as a dynamic equilibrium system is generated and made operational in order to test a series of hypotheses relating population and settlement patterns. The development of populations in marginal resource zones is shown to be a function of optimal zone exploitation in the Hay Hollow Valley. MacArthur's deviation amplifying model is presented as an alternative to the model's diminishing resource curves as a possible expl…
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca
Archaeological data from a regional settlement pattern survey of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, are used to monitor how scarce goods and resources were allocated to members of society through eight phases from 600 B.C. to A.D. 1520. The goal is to determine how distinct historical social structures performed economically in terms of the goods and resources recoverable archaeologically. Measures utilized include land use and settlement characterist…
Environment, Subsistence, and Society
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Descriptive Statements, Covering Laws, and Theories in Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
The paradigm for explanation in archaeology presented by the "new archaeologists" is reviewed and shown to need further elaboration. It is argued that that presentation has overemphasized the form of explanatory arguments and insufficiently considered their content. Not all explanatory arguments provide intuitively satisfactory explanations of particular observations. Instead, intuitively satisfactory explanations require general theories which s…
The depopulation of native America
The replacement, for the most part, of native American populations by immigrants in the centuries after 1492 is one of the great demographic shifts of the modern world. It is fundamental for American archaeology, of course, and makes the background for acute moral and ethical issues, which will become more visible as the 500th anniversary of the Columbus landfall nears
Changing places
Rummidge and Euphoria are places on the map of a comic world which resembles the one We are standing on without corresponding exactly to it, and which is peopled by figments of the imagination
Population, Contact, and Climate in the New Mexican Pueblos
A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Fieldwork in the Kamchatka Region of Russia
Why excavate? Triaging the excavation of archaeological sites
The issue is not 'why excavate?', nor is it whether or not to excavate sites. Nor is it the numerous ancillary considerations mentioned at the round table and in the papers - too many sites, too few resources, too large a backlog of unpublished sites, or saving sites for future techniques. All - excavators, archaeologists, curators and cultural heritage managers - would agree. If there is a unique world-class site that will be destroyed in a few …
Slag as evidence for early iron production in arctic Norway
Physical, structural and chemical analyses were made on slag remains obtained from three sites in Iron Age arctic Norway. Scanning electron microscopy and x‐ray microanalysis were employed to confirm that the slag can only be a result of iron production. Although a distinction between slag produced by smithing and smelting proved difficult, consideration of the processes and the resources available support the assumption that both were practiced …
Up on the prehistoric farm
Rindos, David. The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1984. xvii + 324 pp. including bibliography and index. $32.50 cloth
Demographic Anthropology. Quantitative approaches
Carrying Capacity and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Prehistoric Southwest
A model of carrying capacity as a dynamic equilibrium system is generated and made operational in order to test a series of hypotheses relating population and settlement patterns. The development of populations in marginal resource zones is shown to be a function of optimal zone exploitation in the Hay Hollow Valley. MacArthur's deviation amplifying model is presented as an alternative to the model's diminishing resource curves as a possible expl…
Environment, Subsistence, and Society
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Addendum to Zubrow Article
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Population, Contact, and Climate in the New Mexican Pueblos
Reply to Dumond's Review
Demographic Anthropology
Descriptive Statements, Covering Laws, and Theories in Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
The paradigm for explanation in archaeology presented by the "new archaeologists" is reviewed and shown to need further elaboration. It is argued that that presentation has overemphasized the form of explanatory arguments and insufficiently considered their content. Not all explanatory arguments provide intuitively satisfactory explanations of particular observations. Instead, intuitively satisfactory explanations require general theories which s…
Demographic Anthropology
International trends in theoretical archaeology
This paper considers the international spread of theoretical archaeology. It examines the general processes that have defined the history of archaeology. Three questions are explored. What is the status of theoretical archaeology? Is its acceptance dependent upon geographic location? In what theoretical directions will it move in the 1980s? The paper shows that the status and acceptance are dependent upon geographic location and predicts that, as…
Demographic Anthropology. Quantitative approaches
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca
Archaeological data from a regional settlement pattern survey of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, are used to monitor how scarce goods and resources were allocated to members of society through eight phases from 600 B.C. to A.D. 1520. The goal is to determine how distinct historical social structures performed economically in terms of the goods and resources recoverable archaeologically. Measures utilized include land use and settlement characterist…
Up on the prehistoric farm
Rindos, David. The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1984. xvii + 324 pp. including bibliography and index. $32.50 cloth
Slag as evidence for early iron production in arctic Norway
Physical, structural and chemical analyses were made on slag remains obtained from three sites in Iron Age arctic Norway. Scanning electron microscopy and x‐ray microanalysis were employed to confirm that the slag can only be a result of iron production. Although a distinction between slag produced by smithing and smelting proved difficult, consideration of the processes and the resources available support the assumption that both were practiced …
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
The depopulation of native America
The replacement, for the most part, of native American populations by immigrants in the centuries after 1492 is one of the great demographic shifts of the modern world. It is fundamental for American archaeology, of course, and makes the background for acute moral and ethical issues, which will become more visible as the 500th anniversary of the Columbus landfall nears
Goodbye Columbus
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
The Ancient Mind
One of the most troubling problems in archaeology is to determine the manner and content of prehistoric thought. A fundamental challenge is to develop the theory, methodology and tools to understand human cognition. Cognitive archaeology as a subject is still in its infancy, and archaeologists are adopting a variety of approaches. One direction has been to develop an 'interpretationist', anti-scientific, literary approach. Another has been to use…
Knowledge representation and archaeology
Introduction There is an apocryphal story about a famous archaeologist who was excavating an Arikara graveyard. Based on previous work, he believed that the Arikara interred the dead in a systematic manner. He suggested that graves were located in a pattern analogous to a checkerboard. Excavating every third square produced nothing for the entire season. The archaeologist was frustrated. During the last day, a crew member suggested they excavate …
Cognitive archaeology reconsidered
What is cognitive archaeology? There are two major aspects to cognitive archaeology. First, cognitive archaeology is a rather loosely-defined area including the evolution of the whole complex system of human mental abilities and their material representations. Second, there is a facet which considers how cognitive processes impact the archaeologists who do archaeology. The first aspect focuses on what can be learned about perception, attention, l…
The Ancient Mind
Foreword Part I. Introduction: 1. Towards a cognitive archaeology Part II. The Interdisciplinary Underpinning: 2. Interpretations and testability in theories about prehistoric thinking 3. Archaeology and cognitive science 4. From mental modularity to generalized intelligence: a cognitive interpretation of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic transition 5. Are images animated? The psychology of images in Ancient Greece Part III. Approaches to Cult Practic…
The Ancient Mind
Changing places
Rummidge and Euphoria are places on the map of a comic world which resembles the one We are standing on without corresponding exactly to it, and which is peopled by figments of the imagination
Chimpanzee material culture
It is a truism to say that behaviour and ideas do not fossilize. Hence, reconstruction of the origins of culture depends on artefacts and other remnants, the use and meaning of which are then inferred. Such inference may seem simple in principle but it is difficult in practice, for several reasons: first, cultural objects are not always distinguishable from natural ones; second, only a subset of enduring objects remains while perishable ones have…
Remote Sensing, Fractals, and Cultural Landscapes
Ancient Mind
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