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Michael Brian Schiffer

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PhD Anthropology University of Arizona
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According to Wikipedia, Michael Brian Schiffer is an American archaeologist and one of the founders and pre-eminent exponents of behavioral archaeology. Schiffer's earliest ideas, set out in his 1976 book Behavioral Archeology and many journal articles, are mainly concerned with the formation processes of the archaeological record . His most important early contribution to archaeology was the rejection of the common processualist assumption that the archaeological record is a transparent fossil record of actual ancient societies. In fact, he argues, artifacts and sites undergo, respectively post-use and post-occupational modification by diverse formation processes.

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Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record. (1997) (1499)
Archaeological Context and Systemic Context (1972) (962)
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory (1978) (745)
Toward the Identification of Formation Processes (1983) (513)
Theory and Experiment in the Study of Technological Change (1987) (369)
Radiocarbon Dating and the "Old Wood" Problem: the Case of the Hohokam Chronology (1986) (359)
Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretive Archaeology. (1997) (325)
The Explanation of Artifact Variability (1997) (304)
Archaeological Method and Theory (1991) (233)
Is There a "Pompeii Premise" in Archaeology? (1985) (210)
The design of archaeological surveys (1978) (185)
Organic-Tempered Pottery: An Experimental Study (1989) (163)
The Material Life of Human Beings: Artifacts, Behavior and Communication (1999) (159)
New Perspectives on Experimental Archaeology: Surface Treatments and Thermal Response of the Clay Cooking Pot (1994) (155)
A theory of architectural design (1983) (150)
The Structure of Archaeological Theory (1988) (146)
People and Things: A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture (2008) (133)
Some Relationships between Behavioral and Evolutionary Archaeologies (1996) (127)
Modern Material Culture the Archaeology of Us (1981) (121)
The Portable Radio in American Life (2022) (108)
The influence of surface treatment on heating effectiveness of ceramic vessels (1990) (100)
Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice (1976) (99)
Archaeology as Behavioral Science1 (1975) (95)
Technological Perspectives on Behavioral Change (2022) (81)
Behavioral archaeology : first principles (1996) (77)
Anthropological perspectives on technology (2001) (75)
The Archaeology of Vacant Lots in Tucson, Arizona (1979) (74)
Archaeology as a Process: Processualism and Its Progeny (2005) (72)
People and Things (2008) (71)
The Devil Is in the Details: The Cascade Model of Invention Processes (2005) (70)
Behavioral Archaeology: Four Strategies1 (1975) (68)
Conservation archaeology. A guide for cultural resource management studies (1977) (68)
Social Theory In Archaeology (2000) (66)
A Provisional Theory of Ceramic Abrasion (1989) (57)
The effects of water on processes of ceramic abrasion (1987) (53)
Ceramic surface treatment and abrasion resistance: An experimental study (1997) (51)
Behavioral archaeology: toward a new synthesis (2001) (51)
Waste Not, Want Not: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Reuse in Tucson, Arizona (1981) (50)
Effects of firing temperature on the fate of naturally occurring organic matter in clays (1988) (49)
Ceramic style analysis in archaeology and ethnoarchaeology: Bridging the analytical gap (1989) (48)
Studying Technological Change: A Behavioral Approach (2011) (47)
Studying technological change: A behavioral perspective (2004) (46)
Beyond Consumption: Toward an Archaeology of Consumerism (2009) (46)
Behavioral Archaeology and the Study of Technology (2001) (44)
Hohokam and Patayan: Prehistory of Southwestern Arizona (1982) (44)
Methodological issues in ethnoarchaeology (1978) (43)
Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America (1994) (43)
The Materiality of Social Power: The Artifact-Acquisition Perspective (2006) (43)
Alternative To Morse's Dalton Settlement Pattern Hypothesis (1975) (35)
Expanding Archaeology (1974) (32)
Studying Technological Differentiation: The Case of 18th‐Century Electrical Technology (2002) (30)
Behavioral Archaeology: Some Clarifications (1999) (30)
Draw the Lightning Down (2003) (29)
Cultural Imperatives and Product Development: The Case of the Shirt-Pocket Radio (1993) (27)
Effects of temper on ceramic abrasion resistance: a preliminary investigation (1987) (25)
The Cache River archeological project : an experiment in contract archeology (1975) (25)
Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research: The Cache Project [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (25)
The place of lithic use-wear Studies in behavioral archaeology (1979) (24)
Use of a Falling-Weight Tester for Assessing Ceramic Impact Strength (1988) (23)
The Electric Lighthouse in the Nineteenth Century: Aid to Navigation and Political Technology (2005) (23)
Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison (2008) (23)
The Origins of Pottery on the Colorado Plateau (2008) (22)
A Preliminary Consideration of Behavioral Change (1979) (22)
Reconfiguring the social, reconfiguring the material (2000) (22)
Cultural Laws and the Reconstruction of Past Lifeways (1972) (21)
Evolutionary Anthropology (2018) (21)
Rites of Passage and Other Rituals in the Life Histories of Objects (2015) (21)
The Archaeology of Science: Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge (2013) (21)
Technology and Material Life (2010) (20)
Taking the Pulse of Method and Theory in American Archaeology (1978) (19)
CULTURAL FORMATION PROCESSES OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD: APPLICATIONS AT THE JOINT SITE, EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA (1973) (19)
Perception and Interpretation in Contemporary Southwestern Archaeology: Comments on Cordell, Upham, and Brock (1989) (18)
Some Issues in the Philosophy of Archaeology (1981) (17)
Clients, Contracts, and Profits: Conflicts in Public Archaeology (1980) (17)
Comments II: Properties, Performance Characteristics, and Behavioural Theory in the Study of Technology (2003) (13)
Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention (2009) (11)
Landscape Formation Processes (2008) (10)
"Conservation in Archaeology. A Guide for Cultural Resorces Menagement Studies", Michael B. Schiffer, George J. Gumerman, New York-San Francisco-London 1977 : [recenzja] / F. Białęcka. (1979) (9)
An Electrical World (2003) (9)
Can There Be a Philosophy of Archaeology? Processual Archaeology and the Philosophy of Science. William Harvey Krieger. (2009) (8)
On Whallon's Use of Dimensional Analysis of Variance at Guila Naquitz (1974) (8)
The Archaeology of Science (2013) (8)
A Cognitive Analysis of Component-Stimulated Invention: Electromagnet, Telegraph, and the Capitol Dome's Electric Gas-Lighter (2008) (7)
A Behavioral Archaeologist Responds (2011) (6)
If at First You Don’t Succeed … (2008) (6)
Archeological Survey in the Cache River Basin (1975) (6)
Factors and “Toolkits”: Evaluating Multivariate Analyses in Archaeology (1975) (6)
サハラに舞う羽根 = The four feathers (2003) (6)
Expanding Ethnoarchaeology: Historical Evidence and Model-Building in the Study of Technological Change (2009) (6)
The Modern Material-Culture Field School: Teaching Archaeology on the University Campus (1981) (5)
Advances in archaeological method and theory : selections for students from volumes 1 through 4 (1982) (5)
Cultural evolution: A return to the basics (1983) (5)
Ethnoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, and the "American School" (2009) (5)
Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture. Marvin Harris. Vintage Books, New York, 1979. xii + 381 pp. $4.95 (paper). (1983) (5)
Designing of Southwestern pottery: A technological and experimental approach (1996) (4)
GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Elements for an Anthropology of Technology. Pierre Lemonnier (1994) (4)
Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking (2008) (4)
Archaeology as Long-Term History. Ian Hodder, editor. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1987. vii + 145 pp., references, index. $39.50 (cloth). (1990) (4)
Binford's Hunting Stand Hypothesis and the Joint Site (1983) (4)
General Estimates of the Nature and Extent of the Archeological Resources (1975) (3)
Archaeological Theory (2021) (3)
Studying Technological Change (2011) (3)
The Relationship Between Access Volume and Content Diversity of Storage Facilities (1973) (3)
The Strong Case Approach in Behavioral Archaeology (2017) (3)
The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas by Tanja Winther (2009) (3)
Return To Holism (1999) (3)
William Laurens Rathje: The Garbage Project and Beyond (2015) (3)
Working at Archaeology. Lewis R. Binford. Academic Press, New York, 1983. xix + 463 pp., figures, tables, biblio., index. $29.50 (cloth). (1985) (2)
Archaeology's Footprints in the Modern World (2017) (2)
Pardon the introduction: A preface to our papers (2004) (2)
Contributions of Experimental Archaeology (2013) (2)
People and Things: A Performance-Based Theory (2008) (2)
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, 3@@@Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, 4 (1982) (2)
Archaeology of the Space Age (2013) (2)
Looking back: why the electric automobile lost market share. How social behavior can affect product (2001) (2)
Social Theory and History in Behavioral Archaeology: Gender, Social Class, and the Demise of the Early Electric Car (2008) (2)
Contributions of Ethnoarchaeology (2013) (2)
Ritual Performance: Ball Courts and Religious Interaction (2008) (2)
Current Directions in Archaeological Method and Theory (1977) (2)
The Chemistry Connection (2008) (1)
Review Article: Archaeological Theory: What's on the Agenda?@@@Time, Tradition, and Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the "Great Divide"@@@Style, Society, and Person: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives@@@Expanding Archaeology@@@Behavioral Archaeology: First Principles@@@Beyond Subsist (1997) (1)
Cache River Archeological Project (1974) (1)
An Anthropological Archaeologist: The Contributions of William A. Longacre to Archaeological Theory, Method, and Practice (2016) (1)
Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and His Electric Kite Hoax (review) (2004) (1)
Cultural Formation Processes (2016) (1)
Material Culture (review) (2000) (1)
An American Physicist (2008) (1)
Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology. Michael Shanks. Routledge, London, 1992. vii + 231 pp., figures, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. ’39.95 (cloth). (1994) (1)
Studying Technological Differentiation (2008) (1)
On the Threshold of Civilization: The Hohokam of Arizona (1982) (1)
William L. Rathje, Father of Garbology (2015) (1)
Conspiracy or Consumer Choice? (2009) (1)
Science: A Behavioral Perspective (2013) (1)
Indirect Impacts of the Channelization Project On the Archeological Resources (1975) (1)
Exploration and Colonization (2013) (1)
The U.s. and Rising Powers (2008) (1)
The U.s. and Rising Powers (2008) (1)
The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age. By Gijs Mom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 423 pp. Illustrations, photographs, figures, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $54.95. ISBN: 0-801-87138-7 (2004) (1)
Publishing Archaeology in Science and Scientific American, 1940–2003 (2005) (1)
Thomas Edison’s Science (2013) (0)
Life History of a Fossil: An Introduction to Taphonomy and Paleoecology. Pat Shipman (1982) (0)
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson (review) (2014) (0)
The “New” Behavioral Archaeology (2016) (0)
A Coming of Age (2003) (0)
THOMAS A. KINNEY. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse- Drawn Vehicles in America. (Studies in Industry and Society.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 381. $49.95 (2006) (0)
Fred Plog 1944–1992 (1995) (0)
A Peculiar Calling (2008) (0)
Cache Project: Archaeological Research and Cultural Resource Management (1975) (0)
6. Life and Death (2019) (0)
The US Nuclear Establishment (2013) (0)
Archaeological resource management in Australia and Oceania : with an introductory paper by M.B. Schiffer, University of Arizona (1979) (0)
2. In the Beginning (2007) (0)
7. First, Do No Harm (2019) (0)
An Anthropological Archaeologist: The Contributions of William A. Longacre to Archaeological Theory, Method, and Practice (2016) (0)
5. Power to the People (2019) (0)
1. The Franklin Phenomenon (2019) (0)
Contributions of Archaeometry (2013) (0)
Artifacts & Ideas: Essays in Archaeology (2004) (0)
The Apparatus of Modern and Early Modern Science (2013) (0)
3. A Coming of Age (2019) (0)
11. Visionary Inventors (2019) (0)
Varieties of Scientific Knowledge (2013) (0)
Abstract The final contribution to the 2010 Society for American Archaeology Forum, "Assessing Michael B. Schiffer and his Behavioral Archaeology," is (2011) (0)
Archaeology: The Study of Prehistoric Change. Fred T. Plog (1976) (0)
10. A New Alchemy (2019) (0)
Physical Anthropology: Fossils in the Making: Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology. Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Andrew P. Hill, eds (1981) (0)
Archaeology: An Introduction to Modern Archeology. J. NED WOODALL (1974) (0)
What Hath God Wrought (2008) (0)
Life and Death (2003) (0)
4. Going Public (2019) (0)
Social Processes and Technological Change (2015) (0)
How social behavior can affect product technology (2000) (0)
Comments on Environment and Behavior at Antelope House (1975) (0)
Why America Is Not a New Rome (review) (2011) (0)
Spectacular Flops (2018) (0)
Rathje, William Laurens (2020) (0)
Behavior, Selection, Agency, Practice, and Beyond (2008) (0)
Washington Report, 2008-09 (2008) (0)
Scientific Expeditions to Antarctica (2013) (0)
"Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory", Michael B. Schiffer, New York 1978 : [recenzja] / F. Białęcka. (1980) (0)
Contemporary Archaeology: A Guide to Theory and Contributions. Edited by Mark P. Leone Southern Illinois Press, Carbondale, 1972. 460 pp. $15.00. (1975) (0)
A New Alchemy (2003) (0)
Action at a Distance (2008) (0)
Machine-Age Electricity (2008) (0)
Lessons of the road: An overland journey to the East (1980) (0)
Magnetic Power Derailed (2008) (0)
Canal Boats along the Illinois and Michigan Canal: A Study in Archaeological Variability. Floyd Mansberger and Christopher Stratton. 2000. Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Archaeological Research Reports No. 10. Springfield, Illinois, xiii + 68 pp. (paper), ISBN 1-930487-00-2 (2003) (0)
Technology and Culture (review) (2011) (0)
Forward to McKellar Paper (1983) (0)
. First, Do No Harm (2003) (0)
12. Technology Transfer: A Behavioral Framework (2019) (0)
Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed (2019) (0)
Building Chronologies: A Hohokam Case Study (2016) (0)
The Devil is in the Details (2008) (0)
The Blacksmith’s Motor (2008) (0)
Beyond the Paths of Heaven: The Emergence of Space Power Thought (review) (2000) (0)
Behavioral Archaeology (2020) (0)
Discovery Processes: Trial Models (2013) (0)
Emerging from Theoretical Anarchy in Anthropological Archaeology (2013) (0)
William A. Longacre, A Remembrance (2016) (0)
A Thousand Points of Light (2008) (0)
Chapters in the prehistory of Eastern Arizona, Paul S. Martin, et al. (1975) (0)
Candidates for President‐elect (1989) (0)
Franklin invents the motor (1994) (0)
Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution (review) (2009) (0)
Artifacts & Ideas: Essays in Archaeology (Book) (2004) (0)
9. Property Protectors (2019) (0)
A Beacon of Modernity (2008) (0)

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