Explaining Shell-Tempered Pottery in Prehistoric Eastern North America
Explaining Shell-Tempered Pottery in Prehistoric Eastern North America
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DOI：
10.1007/s10816-006-9003-3
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发表时间：
2006-06
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
J. Feathers
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作者：
J. Feathers
对于美国东部贝壳回火陶器出现频率的上升，人们在历史和功能性解释之间摇摆不定。使用进化论，首次出现和扩散的历史记录与可能导致其选择的壳回火陶器的物理特性交织在一起。了解变化发生的规模和最适合理解这种变化的分析单位，对于解释壳回火的广泛使用及其频率的或多或少的同步上升是必要的。一个假设与经验的后果提供了理解这一现象的出发点。
Explanations for the rise in frequency of shell-tempered pottery in the Eastern United States have vacillated between historical and functional accounts. Using evolutionary theory, the historical records of first appearance and diffusion are woven with physical properties of shell-tempered pottery that may have led to its selection. An appreciation of the scale at which change occurs and the units of analysis most appropriate for understanding that change is necessary for an explanation that can account for the widespread use of shell-tempering and the more-or-less coincident rise in its frequency. A hypothesis with empirical consequences is offered as a starting point for understanding this phenomenon.