Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

1 Archaeology and Annales: time, space and change

Introduction

Origins: the Annales tradition

Annales, archaeology, social theory and time

Archaeology and time

Theoretical constructs and case studies

Annales: retrospect and prospect

Acknowledgments

References

PART I THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS

2 Braudel's temporal rhythms and chronology theory in archaeology

Introduction

Archaeology as a historical science

Rhythms of temporal change in history and archaeology

Braudel and chronology theory

Binford, Schiffer, and the "Pompeu premise" in Americanist archaeology

Binford's distinction between ethnographic and archaeological time

periodization and chronological refinement

Chronological refinement and archaeological g

Temporal rhythms and cultural reconstruction

Braudel and cultural reconstruction

"Household archaeology" and time: some problems

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Reference

3 Time perspectivism, Annales, and the potential of archaeology

Introduction

The achievements of the Annales

An Annales hierarchy of time scales

The scale of the material

The problems of an Annaliste approach

Hierarchies of explanation, time perspectivism, and archaeology

The role of explanatory hierarchies

Indeterminacy and scales of process

The role of uniformitarianism

Time perspectivism and rates of cultural process

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References

PART II CASE STUDIES

4 Rhythms of change in Postclassic central Mexico: archaeology, ethnohistory, and the Braudelian model

Introduction

The archaeological record for Postclassic central Mexico

Chronology

The Epiclassic period

The Early Postclassic period

The Middle Postclassic period

The Late Postclassic period

Major trends in the Postclassic archaeological record

Chronological refinement in Postclassic central Mexico

Central Mexican ethnohistory

The nature of the sources

The chronicle of native history

Diachronic correlation of archaeology and ethnohistory

Demography

Urbanism

Economics

Political and military processes

Conclusions

Temporal rhythms in Postclassic central Mexico

The relevance of Braudel

Conclusions

Notes

Acknowledgements

References

5 Pottery styles and social status in medieval Khurasan

Introduction

Khurasan: a case study

The evidence of pottery

Conclusion

cknowledgement

References

6 Independence and imperialism: politicoeconomic structures in the Bronze Age Levant

Introduction

The dilemma of interpretation

Archaeological and documentary data

Archaeological data (Table 6.1)

Documentary data

Complexity and collapse in the southern Levant

Political structures and political power: an Annales perspective

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

References

7 Braudel and North American archaeology: an example from the Northern Plains

Introduction

The contribution of Annales

Southern Alberta: a case

The natural environment

Cultural setting: the historic Blackfoot

The prehistoric record

Procurement and processing as long-term structures

Procurement

Processing

Historic period gender relations

Environment and economy

Concluding summary

Acknowledgments

References

8 Restoring the dialectic: settlement patterns and documents in medieval central Italy

Introduction

Archaeology and history

Archaeology and the Annales

The search for an objective past

A recursive alternative

Texts and settlements in early medieval central Italy

Farfa and San Vincenzo

Conclusion

Acknowledgment

References

PART III OVERVIEW AND PROSPECTS

9 Annales and archaeology

References

10 What can archaeologists learn from Annalistes?

The history of a difference

Confronting traditions

Critique

The lessons for archaeology

Notes

Reference

Index