This thinker arrayed a series of data sets on global environmental factors with information he collected on hunter-gatherers in what he called "pattern recognition" experiments.
This thinker arrayed a series of data sets on global environmental factors with information he collected on hunter-gatherers in what he called "pattern recognition" experiments. This thinker said he found the most meat-dependent culture in the world after living among the Nunamiut of Alaska, which he did in order to understand the adaptation of Mousterian Neanderthals. This thinker borrowed a term from Robert K. Merton's sociological method to refer to his pairing of ethnographic fieldwork with studies of physical remains; he explained that method in books like Constructing Frames of Reference and termed it the (*) "middle range theory" of archaeology. In articles like Archaeology as Anthropology, this thinker advocated going beyond purely scientific methods by relating artifacts to human behavior as part of what was called "New Archaeology." For 10 points, name this American pioneer of processual archaeology.
This thinker arrayed a series of data sets on global environmental factors with information he collected on hunter-gatherers in what he called "pattern recognition" experiments.
Lewis Binford