| Summer Field Readings
(These readings are bound and distributed to the student
at the
beginning of field school.)
WEEK 1: What is
Archaeology? Connecting Ideas to Approaches, History and Practice
 Binford, Lewis R. and Jeremy Sabloff
Paradigms, Systematics and Archaeology. Journal
of Anthropological Research.
Trigger, Bruce T.
History and Contemporary American
Archaeology: A Critical Analysis. From
Archaeological Thought in America,
Lamberg-Karlovsky, editor.
Binford, Lewis R.
Behavioral Archaeology and the "Pompeii
Premise." Journal of Anthropological Research.
"Culture" and Social Roles in
Archaeology. From Debating Archaeology.
WEEK 2: Some First
Principles of Behavioral Ecology
Hettinger, Robert L.
Middle Range Theory and Hunter-Gatherers.
From Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and
Evolutionary Theory.
Simms, Steven R.
Acquisition Cost and Nutritional Data on Great
Basin Resources. From Journal of
California and Great Basin Anthropology.
Broughton, Jack M.
Late Holocene Resource Intensification in the
Sacramento Valley, California: The Vertebrate
Evidence. From Journal of
Archaeological Science.
For Added Definition: Middle Range
Theory by Herbert Maschner, Oxford Companion to
Archaeology.
WEEK 3: Archaeological
Site Formation: Processes and Ethnoarchaeological Observations
Schiffer, Michael B.
The Nature of Archaeological Evidence and
Dimensions of Artifact Variability. From
Formation Process of the Archaeological
Record.
Binford, Lewis B.
Willow Smoke and Dog's Tails:
Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological
Site Formation. American Antiquity.
O'Connell, James F.K. Hawkes and N.B. Jones
Distribution of Refuse-Producing Activities at
Hadza Residential Base Camps. From
Interpretation of Archaeological Spatial
Patterning, edited by Kroll and Price.
For Added
Definition: Experimental Archaeology by Mark G. Plew in Oxford Companion to
Archaeology.
WEEK 4: Hunter-Gatherer
Mobility and Settlement
Kelly, Robert L.
Mobility/Sedentism: Concepts,
Archaeological Measures and Effects. From Annual
Reviews in Anthropology.
Shott, Michael
Technological Organization and Settlement
Mobility: An Ethnographic Examination.
Journal of Anthropological Research.
Simms, Steven R.
Plain-Ware Ceramics and
Residential Mobility: A Case Study from the Great Basin.
Journal of Archaeological Science.
WEEK 5: Thoughts Regarding
Foraging and Resource Use in Southwestern Idaho
Plew, Mark G.
Implications of Nutritional Potential of
Anadromous Fish Resources of the Western Snake
River Plain, Journal of California and Great
Basin Anthropology.
Modeling
Alternative Subsistence Strategies for the Middle Snake River. In North American
Archaeologist.
Gould, Russell T. and Mark G. Plew
Prehistoric Salmon Fishing in the Northern
Great Basin: Ecological Dynamics, Trade-Offs,
and Foraging Strategies. In Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Fishing Strategies.
Dunn, Michael T.
Fungal Contamination of Stored Seeds:
Implications for Aboriginal Caching Strategies. In
Idaho Archaeologist.
WEEK 6: So What Have We
Learned: A Lesson in Shrimping
Henrikson, L.S., Robert Yohe III, M.E. Newman and M. Druss
Freshwater Crustaceans as an Aboriginal Food
Resource in the Northern Great Basin.
Journal of California and Great Basin
Anthropology.
Plew, Mark G. and Jay Weaver
Implications of an Experimental Freshwater
Shrimp Harvest. Northwest Anthropological
Research Notes (in press).
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