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Archaeology and its Discontents:Why Archaeology Matters
EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING
What might an archaeologist expect to know and how might they expect to know it?
The megaliths of western Europe
From explanation to understanding
Conclusion
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
The possibility of archaeology
The archaeological record
The limits of uniformitarianism
Style and function
Process and tradition
Conclusion
SYSTEMS AND THE DYNAMICS OF HISTORICAL CHANGE The New Archaeology
Establishing a 'New Archaeology'
The new methodology
The historical condition
The initial definition of the cultural system
Historical explanations: from maladaptation to socially driven change
Conclusion
A SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
From an archaeology of adaptive systems to a Social Archaeology
Social structures
Social typologies, social practices, and world systems
The problem with anthropological analogies
Conclusion
FROM FUNCTIONALISM TO A SYMBOLIC AND STRUCTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Did anything change?
The meanings of things
Following a rule
The question of human exceptionalism
Conclusion
THE EVOLUTION OF ECOSYSTEMS
What is life? Systems of biological development
Why history is not a matter of Darwinian evolution but of biocultural development
Post-Darwinism
Conclusion
THE MAKING OF POPULATIONS
Living with things
Consciousness
Life as a construct
Constructing populations
Neolithic populations
Conclusion
THE CULTURES OF LIFE
A cultural systemics
Cultural histories
The early Neolithic in Europe
Conclusion
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