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Ethnoarchaeology

Ethnoarchaeology is an archaeological subdiscipline that employs ethnographic methods to study living societies and their material culture, establishing analogical frameworks through which to interpret archaeological evidence and understand past human behavior.

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Entangled: an archaeology of the relationships between humans and things

Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 952 citations

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Domestication of plants in the old world: the origin and spread of cultivated plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valley

Choice Reviews Online · 1988 · 932 citations

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Symbols in Action. Ethnoarchaeological Studies of Material Culture

Martin Hall, Ian Hodder · The South African Archaeological Bulletin · 1983 · 715 citations

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Technological Efficiency and Tool Curation

Douglas B. Bamforth · American Antiquity · 1986 · 621 citations

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Dimensional Analysis of Behavior and Site Structure: Learning from an Eskimo Hunting Stand

Lewis R. Binford · American Antiquity · 1978 · 592 citations

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Authors

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  1. RT
    Robin Torrence

    Australian Museum, Australia

    9 publications · 329 citations

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  2. HJ
    Hetty Jo Brumbach

    University at Albany, State University of New York, United States

    9 publications · 270 citations

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  3. RJ
    Robert Jarvenpa

    University at Albany, State University of New York, United States

    8 publications · 224 citations

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  4. MM
    Marco Madella

    Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain

    7 publications · 255 citations

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  5. RA
    Richard A. Gould

    Brown University, United States

    6 publications · 1K citations

    6

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Institutions

962

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    22 h-index

    72 publications

    3.5K citations

  2. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    19 h-index

    37 publications

    3K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    24 publications

    796 citations

  4. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    16 h-index

    37 publications

    1.4K citations

  5. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    16 h-index

    32 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    14 h-index

    17 publications

    679 citations

  7. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    13 h-index

    25 publications

    659 citations

  8. University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    13 h-index

    17 publications

    784 citations

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Venues

  1. American Antiquity

    90 publications · 7.2K citations

    42

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  2. Journal of Archaeological Science

    61 publications · 3.8K citations

    38

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 50 publications · 5.9K citations

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  4. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

    39 publications · 2.3K citations

    27

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  5. World Archaeology

    36 publications · 1.8K citations

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See also

Ethnoarchaeology

Core Methods

Analogical Reasoning

Interpretive Limits

Field Contexts