ASPECTS OF REGIONAL-ANALYSIS IN ARCHEOLOGY
ASPECTS OF REGIONAL-ANALYSIS IN ARCHEOLOGY
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DOI:
10.1146/annurev.an.06.100177.002403
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
JOHNSON, GA
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作者:
JOHNSON, GA
Regional studies are of growing importance in anthropology. There is a continuing need for expansion of spatial and temporal frameworks for the study of many aspects of human behavior (2, 9). The general acceptance of settlement pattern survey as an archaeological research strategy (1 1) has created a demand for both new theory and analytical methodology appropriate to regional data. The recent publication of a two-volume work on RegionalAnalysis in anthropology edited by Smith (141) and of a volume on SpatialAnalysis in Archaeology by Hodder & Orton (65) reflects this demand.The literature on regional analysis is far more extensive than I could hope to review here. I have, therefore, selected a sharply limited series of topics for more intensive discussion. I will attempt to illustrate the potential importance to archaeological research of concepts developed primarily by geographers, while keeping bald assertions of the utility of various models of spatial behavior to a minimum. This review is organized in three sections of increasing scale of analysis. The first section briefly considers alternative models of human decision-making as the bases of models of spatial behavior. The second section reviews a model of the spatial interaction of groups or populations. The third section considers aspects of the development and operation of regional interaction systems.