Processual archaeology : exploring analytical strategies, frames of reference, and culture process / edited by Amber L. Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prelude : Searching for home in the modern landscape of archaeology / Robert L. Kelly -- The goals of processual archaeology / Amber L. Johnson -- Middle Paleolithic assemblage formation at Riparo Mochi / Steven L. Kuhn -- Taphonomy and site structure of a late Paleolithic open-air site / James G. Enloe -- Modes of ceramic production and distribution : some observations from Philippine ethnoarchaeology / William A. Longacre -- Mobility, sedentism, and intensification : organizational responses to environmental and social change among the San of southern Africa / Robert K. Hitchcock -- Poison hunting strategies and the organization of technology in the circumpolar region / Alan J. Osborn -- The functional hypothesis revisited : an evaluation of cumulative graphs using the Mousterian in the eastern Sahara of Egypt and in southwest France / Fred Wendorf and Romuald Schild -- Population ecology, predator-prey dynamics, and Paleolithic society / Mary C. Stiner -- On niche breadth, system stability, and the importance of a phrase / Amber L. Johnson -- Niche : a productive guide for use in the analysis of cultural complexity / Lewis R. Binford -- Solving Meno's puzzle, defeating Merlin's subterfuge : bodies of reference knowledge and archaeological inference / LuAnn Wandsnider.