Christopher Carr Archaeology

For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis:
​Bridging Data Structure,
​Quantitative Technique, and Theory

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  • History of Hopewell Studies and Future Research
  • Hopewell Natural Environment, Subsistence
  • Hopewell Community and Social Life
  • Hopewell Religion, Ritual, Art
  • Hopewell Chronology
  • Hopewellian Interregional Interaction
  • Scioto Hopewell Local Ceramic Exchange
  • Evolution of Woodland Period Alliance Strategies
  • HOPEBIOARCH Database & Documentation 2008
  • Other Hopewell Archaeology Data Bases 2005, 2021
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Religion
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Ethnography Databases
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Religion – Crosscultural, Theory
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Economics—Theory
  • Mortuary Analysis
  • Ceramic Analysis, X-Radiography
  • Metals, Paints, and Other Materials Analysess
  • Hopewell Copper Artwork & Digital Image Processing Project
  • Survey for Unpublished Hopewell Art
  • Textile Structural Analysis
  • Material Style Theory and Analysis
  • Quantitative Methods and Statistics
  • Geophysical Remote Sensing
  • Human Alteration of Soil Chemistry and Physics
  • Origin of Domestication Economies
  • Book – Being Scioto Hopewell
  • Book – The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors
  • Book – Gathering Hopewell
  • Book – Style, Society, and Person
  • Book – For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis
  • Book – Soil Resistivity Surveying
  • Video Symposium – Personhood and Ritual Drama
  • Courses Taught
Book Cover: For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis
1989   For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis: Bridging Data Structure, Quantitative Technique, and Theory, edited by C. Carr. Softbound edition.  Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL. 648 pp.

​1985
   For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis: Bridging Data Structure, Quantitative Technique, and Theory, edited by C. Carr.  Hardbound edition.  Westport Publishers, Kansas City, MO.  622 pp.


​Summary

[Summary forthcoming]


​Reviews

​Review of For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis, American Anthropologist 1987, 89(2), pp. 459-460.  Jack D. Nance.​
​Review of For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis, Quarterly Review of Archaeology 1986, 7(1), pp. 1, 15-16.  Fekri A. Hassan.
Review of For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis.  On Web, April 2000.  J. Bryan Mason.


​Table of Contents

Part I.  General Introduction
Chapter 1.
​Perspective and Basic Definitions. Christopher Carr

​Part II.  Philosophical Framework

Chapter 2.
​Getting into Data: Philosophy and Tactics for the Analysis of Complex Data Structures. Christopher Carr
Chapter 3. 
The Substance of Archaeological Analysis and the Mold of Statistical Method: Enlightenment Out of Discordance? Dwight W. Read

Part III.  Data Organization and Data Base Management
Chapter 4.
Introductory Remarks on Data Base Management. Christopher Carr
Chapter 5.
Archaeological Data Base Management as Conceptual Process. Sandra Parker, W. Fredrick Limp, and James A. Farley

Part IV. Regional Analysis
Chapter 6.
Introductory Remarks on Regional Analysis. Christopher Carr  ​
Chapter 7.
The Analysis of Decision Making: Alternative Applications in Archaeology. W. Fredrick Limp and Christopher Carr   ​
Chapter 8.
​Predictive Modeling of Site Settlement Systems Using Multivariate Logistics. Sandra Parker
Chapter 9.
Determining Empirical Relationships between the Natural Environment and Prehistoric Site Locations: A Hunter-Gatherer Example. Kenneth L. Kvamme
Chapter 10.
Constraints on Linear Programming Applications in Archaeology. Arthur S. Keene
Chapter 11.
Notions to Numbers: Great Basin Settlements as Polythetic Sets. Leonard Williams, David Hurst Thomas, and Robert Bettinger

​Part V.  Intrasite Spatial Analysis
Chapter 12.
​Introductory Remarks on Intrasite Spatial Analysis. Christopher Carr
Chapter 13.
Alternative Models, Alternative Techniques: Variable Approaches to Intrasite Spatial Analysis. Christopher Carr
Chapter 14.
​The Contiguity-Anomaly Technique for Analysis of Spatial Variation. Bruce G. Gladfelter and Clifford E. Tiedemann

​Part VI.  Artifact Analysis
Chapter 15.
Introductory Remarks on Artifact Analysis. Christopher Carr
Chapter 16.
Absolute Seriation: A Time-Series Approach. David P. Braun
Chapter 17.
The Use of Technological Indices: A Case Study for the Levantine Mousterian. Marcia L. Jones   ​
Chapter 18.
​Projectile Point Maintenance and Typology: Assessment with Factor Analysis and Canonical Correlation. C. Marshall  Hoffman
  • Home
  • History of Hopewell Studies and Future Research
  • Hopewell Natural Environment, Subsistence
  • Hopewell Community and Social Life
  • Hopewell Religion, Ritual, Art
  • Hopewell Chronology
  • Hopewellian Interregional Interaction
  • Scioto Hopewell Local Ceramic Exchange
  • Evolution of Woodland Period Alliance Strategies
  • HOPEBIOARCH Database & Documentation 2008
  • Other Hopewell Archaeology Data Bases 2005, 2021
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Religion
  • Postcontact Woodland Indian Ethnography Databases
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Religion – Crosscultural, Theory
  • Anthropology & Archaeology of Economics—Theory
  • Mortuary Analysis
  • Ceramic Analysis, X-Radiography
  • Metals, Paints, and Other Materials Analysess
  • Hopewell Copper Artwork & Digital Image Processing Project
  • Survey for Unpublished Hopewell Art
  • Textile Structural Analysis
  • Material Style Theory and Analysis
  • Quantitative Methods and Statistics
  • Geophysical Remote Sensing
  • Human Alteration of Soil Chemistry and Physics
  • Origin of Domestication Economies
  • Book – Being Scioto Hopewell
  • Book – The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors
  • Book – Gathering Hopewell
  • Book – Style, Society, and Person
  • Book – For Concordance in Archaeological Analysis
  • Book – Soil Resistivity Surveying
  • Video Symposium – Personhood and Ritual Drama
  • Courses Taught