Robert Dunnell
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Chester Dunnell was an archaeologist known for his contribution in archaeological systematics, measurement and explanation of the archaeological record, evolutionary archaeology, and the archaeology of eastern North America. Dunnell received his PhD from Yale University in 1967. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington until his retirement in 1996 after which he was emeritus at the University of Washington as well as Mississippi State University.
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- The Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective (1987) (544)
- Style and Function: A Fundamental Dichotomy (1978) (428)
- 7 – The Siteless Survey: A Regional Scale Data Collection Strategy (1983) (332)
- Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology (1980) (310)
- Systematics in Prehistory (1971) (253)
- The Notion Site (1992) (211)
- Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply] (1979) (172)
- Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies] (1992) (170)
- The Harvey Lecture Series. Science, Social Science, and Common Sense: The Agonizing Dilemma of Modern Archaeology (1982) (156)
- Population Structure, Cultural Transmission, and Frequency Seriation (1997) (155)
- Methodological Issues in Americanist Artifact Classification (1986) (151)
- Research and Development in the Stone Age: Technological Transitions among Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (149)
- Seriation Method and Its Evaluation (1970) (143)
- Archaeological thought in America: Aspects of the application of evolutionary theory in archaeology (1989) (114)
- History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (96)
- The Rise and Fall of Culture History (1997) (92)
- Theoretical issues in the interpretation of microartifacts (1989) (80)
- Darwinian Selection, Symbolic Variation, and the Evolution of Culture [and Comments and Reply] (1985) (78)
- Artifact Size and Plowzone Processes (1995) (67)
- The Ecological Genetics of Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture [and Comments and Reply] (1991) (62)
- Temporal Models in Prehistory: An Example From Eastern North America [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (54)
- The Evolution of the Capacity for Culture: Sociobiology, Structuralism, and Cultural Selectionism [and Comments and Replies] (1986) (51)
- Sedentism, Population Growth, and Resource Selection in the Woodland Midwest: A Review of Coevolutionary Developments [and Comments and Reply] (1987) (49)
- Archaeological potential of anthropological and scientific models of function (1978) (47)
- Identification of fragmentary bone from the Pacific (2010) (40)
- Beveled Projectile Points and Ballistics Technology (2012) (37)
- The Concept of Waste in an Evolutionary Archaeology (1999) (37)
- Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language: A Log-linear Approach [and Comments and Reply] (1995) (34)
- Archaeological essays in honor of Irving B. Rouse (1978) (30)
- Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947: A Landmark Study in American Archaeology (1985) (25)
- Late Woodland Period "Waste" Reduction in the Ohio River Valley (1999) (25)
- Artifact Size and Lateral Displacement under Tillage: Comments on the Odell and Cowan Experiment (1990) (25)
- Lulu Li Near Punctated: Essays in Honor of George Irving Quimby (1983) (24)
- Natural Selection, Energetics, and "Cultural Materialism" [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (23)
- The use of electron spin resonance (ESR) for the determination of prehistoric lithic heat treatment (1993) (23)
- Heat Treatment of Mill Creek and Dover Cherts on the Malden Plain, Southeast Missouri (1994) (22)
- The Relation of Dating and Chronology: Comments on Chatters and Hoover (1986) and Butler and Stein (1988) (1988) (20)
- Elemental Composition and Inference of Ceramic Vessel Function (1990) (19)
- Temporal Data Requirements, Luminescence Dates, and the Resolution of Chronological Structure of Late Prehistoric Deposits in the Central Mississippi River Valley (2005) (17)
- Sabloff and Smith’s “The Importance of Both Analytic and Taxonomic Classification in the Type-Variety System” (1971) (16)
- Methodological Issues in Contemporary Americanist Archaeology (1984) (14)
- Time's River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley (2008) (13)
- The Woodside Component of the Slone Site, Pike County, Kentucky (1971) (11)
- The archaeology of William Henry Holmes (1992) (11)
- Trends in Current Americanist Archaeology (1979) (11)
- Is a Scientific Archaeology Possible (1992) (11)
- The New Archaeology and Aftermath. A View from outside the Anglo-American World (1992) (11)
- Formal analyses and functional accounts of groundstone “plummets” from Poverty Point, Louisiana (2012) (11)
- Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley (1998) (9)
- A Theoretically-Sufficient and Computationally-Practical Technique for Deterministic Frequency Seriation (2015) (9)
- The Americanist Literature for 1983: A Year of Contrasts and Challenges (1984) (8)
- Evolutionary Epistemology and Human Values [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (8)
- Americanist Archaeology: The 1979 Contribution (1980) (7)
- Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form (1997) (7)
- Cultural and Scientific Evolution: Some Comments on “The Decline and Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization” (1980) (7)
- Archaeological Survey of the Vancouver Lake - Lake River Area Clark County, Washington (1973) (6)
- Low-Density Archeological Records From Plowed Surfaces: Some Preliminary Considerations (1988) (5)
- Americanist Culture History (1997) (5)
- Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality: A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting. William Y. Adams and Ernest W. Adams. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1991. xxiii + 427 pp., tables, figures, references, index. $64.50 (cloth). (1993) (5)
- Sabloff and Smith's “The Importance of Both Analytic and Taxonomic Classification in the Type-Variety System” (1971) (4)
- Archaeological Remains in Home Valley Park, Skamania County, Washington (1974) (4)
- 2 – Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology (1981) (4)
- A Review of the Americanist Literature for 1982 (1983) (4)
- Prehistoria moderna: introducción sistemática al estudio de la arqueológía prehistórica (1978) (4)
- Slone Site, Pike County, Kentucky (1964) (3)
- Americanist Archaeological Literature: 1981 (1982) (3)
- Americanist Archaeology: The 1980 Literature (1981) (3)
- If You've Nothing Better to Do, Honk (1980) (2)
- Test Excavations and Mitigation Plan for 45-Sa-11 Skamania County, Washington (1977) (2)
- The Uses of Style in Archeology. Margaret Conkey , Christine Hastorf (1991) (2)
- Assessment of the Archaeological Resources of North Bonneville, Skamania County, Washington and Environs (1975) (2)
- What does the archaeological record mean (1984) (2)
- Understanding Post-Depositional Processes Through Electron Microbeam Analysis of Archaeological Bone From Se Missouri (1992) (2)
- Americanist Archaeology in 1984 (1985) (1)
- Report of the Committee on Archeological Nomenclature (1997) (1)
- Archeological Explanation. The Scientific Method in Archeology (1986) (1)
- Research Design for the Chief Joseph Dam Cultural Resources Project. (1984) (1)
- Debating Oaxaca Archaeology. Joyce Marcus, editor. Anthropological Papers No. 84. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990. x + 270 pp., figures, tables, references. $18.00 (paper). (1992) (1)
- Similar Finds? Similar Interpretations? Carl-Axel Moberg, editor. Department of Archaeology, University of Gothenberg, Sweden, 1981. Nine essays, individually numbered. Paper. (1983) (1)
- Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America. Bruce D. Smith. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1992. xiv + 302 pp., figures, tables, literature cited, index. $49.95 (cloth). (1994) (1)
- Archaeological Test Excavations at the Caples Sites, 45-Sa-5, Skamania County, Washington (1976) (1)
- Formation-Process Studies and Everyday Archaeological Practice (1990) (1)
- 23Du270: a Limited Activity Site In Dunklin County, Missouri (1984) (1)
- "Systematics in prehistory", R. C. Dunnel, New York 1971 : [recenzja] / F. Białęcka. (1975) (1)
- Remote Sensing in Archaeological Sampling Designs (1980) (1)
- Archaeological Survey of the Green River Reservoir (1964) (0)
- Late Adena Atlatl Handle Style (1973) (0)
- Archeology: Prehistoric America. BETTY J. MEGGERS (1973) (0)
- Archaeological Investigations at Hamilton Island, Skamania County,Washington (1976) (0)
- Lawrence A. Kuznar Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek (CA), 1997. (2003) (0)
- Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands. C. Margaret Scarry, ed (1995) (0)
- Arkansas Archaeology. Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morse, edited by Robert C. Mainfort and Marvin D. Jeter, Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1999 (2000) (0)
- The Transfer and Transformation of Ideas and Material Culture. Peter J. Hugill and D. Bruce Dickson, editors. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 1988. xxii + 281 pp., index. $29.50 (paper). (1990) (0)
- Archaeology: Archaeological Constructs: An Aspect of Theoretical Archaeology. Jean‐Claude Gardin. (1981) (0)
- X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Prehistoric Ceramics (1964) (0)
- Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory and Archeological Explanation. C. Michael Barton , Geoffrey A. Clark (1999) (0)
- Test Excavations at the Hamilton Island Site, 45-Sa-12 (1976) (0)
- Understanding the Columbian demographic disaster (1995) (0)
- Time's River (2008) (0)
- Recovering the Past. Richard A. Gould. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1990. x + 258 pp., figures, tables, references, indexes. $24.95 (cloth). (1992) (0)
- Archaeological Survey of Everett Harbor and the Lower Snohomish Estuary-Delta (1975) (0)
- Archeology: Paleoethnobotany of the Koster Site: The Archaic Horizons. NANCY B. ASCH, RICHARD I. FORD, and DAVID L. ASCH (1973) (0)
- Cultural Change and Continuity: Essays in Honor of James Bennett Griffin. Charles E. Cleland, editor. Academic Press, New York, 1976. xxvii + 378 pp., illus. $24.50. (1977) (0)
- Chief Joseph Dam Cultural Resources Management Plan (1978) (0)
- locene history is reviewed by Spriggs, including consideration of the indigenous versus intrusive nature of Lapita ceramics and related phenomena. Golson's early impact in New Zealand and tropical Polynesia is evaluated by Davidson and Green (2016) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Archeological Investigation of the Shannon Site, Montgomery County, Virginia. Joseph L. Benthall. (1970) (0)
- Conceptions of Kentucky Prehistory: A Case Study in the History of Archeology. Douglas W. Schwartz (1968) (0)
- Explaining archaeology to archaeologists (1986) (0)
- Book reviews (1992) (0)
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