| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: Confronting Scale -- Introduction: Confronting Scale -- Introducing Scale: Space, Time and Size in The Past and the Present -- On Being the Right Size: Affordances and the Meaning of Scale -- Timescales -- Scale as Artifact: GIS, Ecological Fallacy, and Archaeological Analysis -- Artifacts as Social Interference: The Politics of Spatial Scale -- Constructing Scale: Identifying Problems -- Topographical Scale as Ideological and Practical Affordance: The Case of Devils Tower -- Perspective Matters: Traversing Scale through Archaeological Practice -- Artifacts as Landscapes: A Use-Wear Case Study of Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at the Solutré Kill Site, France -- Scale and Archaeological Evaluations: What are We Looking For? -- Scale, Model Complexity, and Understanding: Simulation of Settlement Processes in the Glenwood Locality of Southwestern Iowa, 1976 and 2000 -- Scale and Its Effects on Understanding Regional Behavioural Systems: An Australian Case Study -- Custer's Last Battle: Struggling with Scale -- Interpreting Scale: Towards New Methodologies and Understandings -- Temporal Scales and Archaeological Landscapes from the Eastern Desert of Australia and Intermontane North America -- Large Scale, Long Duration and Broad Perceptions: Scale Issues in Historic Landscape Characterisation -- Multiscalar Approaches to Settlement Pattern Analysis -- Grain, Extent, and Intensity: The Components of Scale in Archaeological Survey -- Persons and Landscapes: Shifting Scales of Landscape Archaeology |
| Summary |
Brings together leading researchers in sociology and psychology to explain human egotism and altruism using not only their area of study but also bringing in research from economics and biology. This book is a response to the quandary. It presents an account of solidarity and prosocial behavior |
| Analysis |
Theoretical archaeology |
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sociale wetenschappen |
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social sciences |
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archeologie |
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archaeology |
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Social Sciences (General) |
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Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Scaling (Social sciences)
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Archaeology -- Methodology.
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Archaeology -- Methodology -- Philosophy
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Archaeology -- Methodology -- Social aspects
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Geographical perception.
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Time perception.
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Space perception.
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Time Perception
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Space Perception
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space perception.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Archaeology -- Methodology
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Geographical perception
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Scaling (Social sciences)
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Space perception
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Time perception
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lock, G. R. (Gary R.)
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Molyneaux, Brian
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| LC no. |
2006921906 |
| ISBN |
038732772X |
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9780387327723 |
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1280700955 |
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9781280700958 |
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1281107344 |
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9781281107343 |
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