1. Introduction (1/23):Course outline.

2. A Little Philosophy (1/30): Theory, explanation, correspondence, coherence, and truth: a recent philosophical account and a recent archaeological example.

Brumfiel, E.
1996 The Quality of Tribute Cloth: The Place of Evidence in Archaeological Argument. American Antiquity 61(3):453-462.

Kosso, P.
1992 Reading the Book of Nature, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

3. A Little More Philosophy (2/6): Science and social construction.

Johnson, M.
1999 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell,Oxford. Chapter 3: Archaeology as science, pp.34-47.

Hacking, I.
1999 The Social Construction of What? Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Too many metaphors, pp. 34-62. Madness: biological or constructed? Pp. 100-124.

Von Wright, G.H.
1971 Explanation and Understanding. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. Two traditions, pp. 1-33.

Sperber, D.
1996 Explaining culture: a naturalistic approach. Blackwell, Oxford. Introduction, pp.1-8. How to be a true materialist in anthropology, pp. 9-31.

4. Time-Space Systematics: Culture History and Chronological Inference (2/13)

Dunnell, R.C.
1985 Five decades of American archaeology. In American Archaeology Past and Future. edited by D.J. Meltzer, D.D. Fowler, and J.A. Sabloff, pp. 23-52. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Kroeber, Alfred
1916 Zuni Potsherds. American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers (1):1-37.

Phillips, P, J.A. Ford and J.B. Griffin
1951 Archaeological survey in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-47. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 25. pp.61-68, 219-236.

Deetz, James and Edwin Dethlefsen
1965 The Doppler effect and archaeology: A consideration of the spatial aspects of seriation. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 21:196-206.

Dunnell, R.C.
1970 Seriation method and its evaluation. American Antiquity 35:305-319.

Carl P. Lipo, Mark E. Madsen, Robert C. Dunnell, Tim Hunt
1997 Population structure, cultural transmission, and frequency seriation. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 16(4):301-333.

5. Time-Space Systematics: Classification and Grouping at the Scale of Artifact and Assemblage (2/20)

Spaulding, A.C.
1953 Statistical Techniques for the discovery of artifact types. American Antiquity 18:305-313.

Ford, J.A.
1954 The type concept revisited. American Anthropologist 56:42-54.

Dunnell R.C.
1986 Methodological Issues in Americanist Artifact Classification. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 9: 148-207

Ford, J.A. and G. Willey
1941 Interpretation of the prehistory of the eastern United States. American Anthropologist 43:325-363.

Tschauer, Harmut
1994 Archaeological systematics and cultural evolution: retrieving the honor of Culture History. Man 29:77-93.

Shennan, Stephen
2000 Population, Culture History, and the dynamics of culture change. Current Anthropology 41(5):811-835.

6. Functional Inference: The New Archaeology (2/27)

Johnson, Matthew
1999 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell,Oxford. Chapter 2: The 'new archaeology', pp.12-33; Chapter 5, Culture as a system, pp.64-84.

Binford, L.R.
1962 Archaeology as anthropology. American Antiquity 28:217-225.

1965 Archaeological systematics and the study of culture process. American Antiquity 31:203-210.

1967 Some comments on historical vs. processual archaeology. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 24: 267-275.

1968 Archaeological perspectives. In New Perspectives in Archaeology, edited by S.R. and L.R. Binford, pp. 1-32. Aldine, Chicago.

Hill, J.A.
1966 A prehistoric community in eastern Arizona. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 22:9-30.

Flannery, K.V.
1968 Archaeological systems theory and early Mesomamerica. In Anthropological Archaeology in the Americas, edited by B. Meggars, pp.67-87. Anthropological Society of Washington, Washington, DC.

7. A Few Post-Processual Critiques (3/6)

Johnson, Matthew
1999 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell,Oxford. Chapter 6: Looking at thoughts, pp.85-97; Chapter 7, Post-processual and interpretative archaeologies, pp.98-115.

Hodder, Ian
1982 Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view. In Symbolic and structural archaeology, edited by Ian Hodder. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

1991 Reading the Past. Chapter 7, Contextual Archaeology, pp.122-152.

Johnson, Matthew
1989 Conceptions of agency in archaeological interpretation. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 8: 189-211

Brumfiel, Elizabeth
1992 Breaking and entering the ecosystem: gender class and faction steal the show. American Anthropologist 94:551-567

Mithen, S.
1990 Evolutionary theory and post-processual archaeology. Antiquity 63:483-494.

Spring Break (3/13)

8. Ethnoarchaeology, Middle Range Theory, and Formation Processes (3/20)

Johnson, Matthew
1999 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell,Oxford. Chapter 4: Testing, Middle-range Theory, and ethnoarchaeology,pp.48-63.

Schiffer, Michael B.
1976 Behavioral Archaeology, Academic Press, New York. pp. 1-26.

1987 Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. Chapter 12: Formation processes and archaeological inference: Broken K Pueblo, pp. 323-338.

Binford L.R.
1977 General Introduction. In For Theory Building in Archaeology, edited by L.R. Binford, pp 1-10. Academic Press, New York.

1981 Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. Academic Press, New York. Chapter 2: Middle range research and the role of actualistic studies, 21-30.

Grayson, Don
1989 Bone transport, bone destruction, and reverse utility curves. Journal of Archaeological Science 16:643-652.

Binford, L.R.
1981 Behavioral archaeology and the Pompeii premise. Journal of Anthropological Research 37:195-208.

Binford, L.R.
1981 Willow smoke and dog's tails: hunter-gatherer settlement systems and archaeological site formation. American Antiquity 45:4-20.

9. More Ethnoarchaeology, and engineering arguments (3/27)

O'Connell, J.F.
1987 Alyawara site structure and its archaeological implications. American Antiquity 52:74-108.

Hodder, Ian
1987 The meaning of discard: ash and domestic space at Baringo. In Method and Theory for Activity Area Research, edited by S. Kent, pp.424-448. Columbia University Press, New York.

O'Connell, James F.
1995 Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior. Journal of Archaeological Research. 3(3)205-

Schiffer, M.B. and J.M. Skibo
1987 Theory and experiment in the study of technological change. Current Anthropology 28:595-622.

O'Brien, M.J., T.D. Holland, R.J. Hoard, G.L. Fox
1994 Evolutionary implications of design and performance characteristics of prehistoric pottery. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 1(3):259-304.

Tschauner, H.
1996 Middle-range theory, behavioral archaeology and post-empiricist philosophy of science in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 3:1-30.

10. Foraging (4/3)

Broughton, Jack M.
1994 Late Holocene resource intensifocation in the Sacramento Valley, California: the vertibrate evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science 21:501-514

Cannon, Michael D.
2000 Large mammal relative abundance in Pithouse and Pueblo period: archaeofaunas from southwestern New Mexico: resource depression among the Mimbres-Mogollon? Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19(3): 317-347

Gremillion, Kristen J.

1996 Diffusion and Adoption of Crops in Evolutionary Perspective. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 15:183-204.

Bird, Rebecca Bleige, Eric Alden Smith and Douglas W.Bird
in press The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies. http://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/handicp9.htm

Hawkes, Kristen
1996 Foraging differences between men and women. In The Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex, and Tradition, edited by James Steele and Stephen Shennan, pp. 283-305. Routledge, London.

Whitley, David.
1994 By the Hunter, for the Gatherer: art, Social Relations and Subsistence Change in the Prehistoric Great Basin. World Archaeology 25(3):356-373.

11. Style (4/10)

Hegmon, Michelle
1992 Archaeological research on style. Annual Review of Anthropology 21:517-36.

Braun, D.P.
1985 Ceramic decorative diversity and Illinois Woodland regional integration. In Decoding Prehistoric Ceramics, edited by B.A. Nelson, pp.128-153, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.

Neiman, F.D.
1995 Stylistic Variation in Evolutionary Perspective: Inferences from Decorative Diversity and Interassemblage Distance in Illinois Woodland Ceramic Assemblages. American Antiquity 60: 7-36.

Osborn, Alan J.
1996 Cattle, Co-wives, Children, and Calabashes: Material Context for Symbol Use among the II Chamus of West-Central Kenya. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 15(2):107-136 .

Hodder, I.
1991 The decoration of containers: an ethnographic and historical study. In Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology, edited by William A. Longacre, pp.95-111. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Wiessner, Polly
1997 Seeking guidelines through an evolutionary approach: style revisited among the !Kung San (Ju/'hoansi) of the 1990's. In Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory and Archaeological Explanation., edited by C. Michael Barton and Geoffrey A. Clark, pp.157-176. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 7.

12. Social Complexity, evolutionist and evolutionary (4/17)

Johnson, Matthew
1999 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell,Oxford. Chapter 9: Archaeology and evolution, pp.132-148.

Dunnell, R.C.
1980 Archaeology and evolutionary theory. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 4:35-99.

Yoffee,Norman
1993 Too many chiefs? Or safe texts for the 90's. In Archaeological theory: who sets the agenda? edited by Norman Yoffee and Andrew Sherratt, pp 60-78. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Boone, James
1992 Competition, conflict and the development of social hierarchies. In Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, edited by Eric A. Smith and Bruce Winterhalder, pp.301-338. Aldine de Gruyter, New York.

Sober, Eliott and David Sloan Wilson
1998 Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Chapter 5: Human groups as adaptative units, pp. 159-196.

Neiman, Fraser D.
1997 Conspicuous consumption as wasteful social advertising: a Darwinian perspective on spatial Patterns in Classic Maya terminal monument dates. In Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory and Archaeological Explanation., edited by C. Michael Barton and Geoffrey A. Clark, pp.267-290. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 7.

Blanton, R.E, G.M. Feinman, S.A. Kowaleski, and P.N. Peregrine
1996 A Dual-processual theory for the evolution of Mesoamerican Civilization. Current Anthropology 37:1-14.

13. Social Complexity and Political Economy (4/24).

Flannery, K.V.
1999 Process and agency in early state formation. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9 (1)3-21.

McGuire Randall,
1992 A Marxist Archaeology. Academic Press, New York. Chapter 7: Death and society in a Hohokam community, pp. 179-212.

McGuire, Randall and Dead Saitta
1996 Although the have petty captain, they obey them badly: the dialectics of pre-hispanic western Pueblo social organization. American Antiquity 61:197-216.

Earle, Timothy
1987 Specialization and the production of wealth: Hawaiian chiefdoms and the Inka Empire. In Specialization, Exchange and Complex Societies , edited by E. Brumfiel and T. Earle, pp. 64-75.

Renfrew, Colin
1986 Introduction: Peer polity interaction and socio-political change. In Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-Political Change , edited by Colin Renfrew and John Cherry, pp. 1-18. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Shennan, Stephen
1999 Cost, benefit and value in the organization of early European copper production. Antiquity 73: 352-63

14. Gender (5/1)

Johnson, Matthew
1999 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell,Oxford. Chapter 8: Archaeology and gender, pp.116-131.

Wylie, Alison
1991 Gender theory and the archaeological record: Why is there no archaeology of gender? In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey, pp. 31-54. Blackwell, Oxford.

Hill, Erika
1998 Gender-informed archaeology: the priority of definition, the use of analogy, and the multivariate approach. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 5:99-128.

Watson, P.J. and M.C. Kennedy
1991 The development of horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands: Women's role. In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by J.M. Gero and M.W. Conkey, pp. 255-275. Blackwell, Oxford.

Crown, Patricia and Suzanne K.. Fish
1996 Gender and status in the Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic transition. American Anthropologist 98:803-817.

Hrdy Blaffer, Sara
1990 Sex bias in nature and in history: a late 1980's reexamination of the 'biological origins' argument. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33:25-37.

Richard W. Wrangham, James Holland Jones, Greg Laden, David Pilbeam, and NancyLou Conklin-Brittain
1999 The Raw and the Stolen: Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins. Current Anthropology 40(5):567-595.