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Stratigraphy and Practical Reason

Author(s) -

Walker William H.

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

american anthropologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1548-1433

pISSN - 0002-7294

DOI - 10.1525/aa.2002.104.1.159

Subject(s) - artifact (error) , stratigraphy , prehistory , key (lock) , ethnography , history , archaeology , paleontology , geology , computer science , artificial intelligence , computer security , tectonics

The organization of human behavior often defies utilitarian or practical reason. Inferences based in practical reason simplify behavioral variability and as a result obscure evidence of ritual organization contained in sequences of archaeological deposits. To expose such sequences, 1 offer a behaviorally based artifact life history approach to the study of prehistoric ritual stratigraphy. I illustrate this approach through a case study of ethnographic and archaeological evidence of ritual and warfare in the American Southwest. [Key words: theory, ritual, war, stratigraphy, Casas Grandes]

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