Cladistics and archaeology

Description:

"In Cladistics and Archaeology, Michael O'Brien and Lee Lyman explore the application of cladistics to archaeology by considering artifacts as human phenotypic characters. Their fundamental premise is that particular kinds of characters (style, artifact type, tool) can be used to create historically meaningful nested taxa. Further, they argue that this approach offers a means of building connections and "life histories" of archaeological artifacts."--Jacket.

subjects: Archaeology,  Cladistic analysis,  Methodology,  Archéologie,  Phylogenetische Systematik,  Methode,  15.31 methods and techniques of archaeology,  Systematics,  Archäologie,  Archeological aspects,  Méthodologie,  Analyse cladistique,  Cladistics,  Archaeology, methodology