Quantitative research in archaeology : progress and prospects/
edited by Mark S. Aldenderier
- Newbury Park : Sage Publications, c1987.
- 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Assessing the impact of quantitative thinking on archaeological research: historical and evolutionary insights -- Paradigms and paradoxes in contemporary archaeology -- Formal and statistical models in archaeology -- Anthropological archaeology, computational modeling, and expert systems -- On the structure of archaeological data -- A consideration of the role of quantitative archaeology in theory construction -- Quantitative methods designed for archaeological problems -- Simple statistics -- Archaeological theory and statistical methods: discordance, resolution, and new directions -- Removing discordance from quantitative analysis -- Reliability, validity, and quantitative methods in archaeology -- Quantitative burial analyses as interassemblage comparison.