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Lewis Binford

Authored Books

1964
Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations of Cultural Diversity and Progressive Development among Aboriginal Cultures of Coastal Virginia and North Carolina. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.

1966
Archaeology at Hatchery West. co-authored with S.R. Binford, R. Whallon, and M.A. Hardin, Archaeological Salvage Report #25, Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale, 152 pp.

1967
"An Ethnohistory of the Nottoway, Meherrin and Weanock Indians of Southeastern Virginia", Ethnohistory 14 (3-4):whole number

1970
Archaeology at Hatchery West. co-authored with S.R. Binford, R. Whallon, and M.A. Hardin, Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology 24.

1972
An Archaeological Perspective. Seminar Press, New York, 464 pp.

1978
Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology. Academic Press, New York, 504 pp.

1981
Bones: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. Academic Press, New York, 320 pp.

1983
In Pursuit of the Past. Thames and Hudson, London, 256 pp.

1983
Working at Archaeology. Academic Press, New York, 462pp.

1984
Die Vorzeit War Ganz Anders. (vorwort von Rudolf Partner) Hamack Verlag, Munchen, FDR (West Germany), 280 pp.

1984
Faunal Remains from Klasies River Mouth. Academic Press, New York, 294 pp.

1988
En Busca del Pasado. Traduccion castellana de Pepa Gasull. Editorial Critica, Barcelona, Spain, 283 pp

1989
Debating Archaeology. Academic Press, New York, 534pp.

1990
Preistoria dell'Uomo. Traduzione di Francesdo Di Mario, Rusconi Libri, Milan, Italy, 312 pp.

1991
Cultural Diversity among Aboriginal Cultures of Coastal Virginia and North Carolina. (revised edition), Garland, New York.

Edited Books

1968: New Perspectives in Archaeology. co-edited with S.R. Binford, Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago.
1977: For Theory Building in Archaeology. Academic Press, New York, 419 pp.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

1968: Methodological Considerations of the Archaeological Use of Ethnographic Data, in Man the Hunter. Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, eds. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, pp. 268-273.
1968: Post-Pleistocene Adaptations, in New Perspectives in Archaeology. Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford, eds. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, pp. 313-342.
1968: Archaeological Perspectives, in New Perspectives in Archaeology. Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford, eds. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, pp. 5-32.
1970: Participant Discussion, in The Far West: Proposals for Research in Archaeology and Ethnology. C.W. Brott, E.L. Davis, and J.S. Green. eds. Museum of Man, San Diego, pp. 1-43.
1971: Mortuary Practices: Their Study and Their Potential, in Approaches to the Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices. James A. Brown. ed. Memoirs of the Society of American Archaeology No. 25. pp. 6-29.
1972: Contemporary Model Building-Paradigms and the Current State of Palaeolithic Research, in Models in Archaeology. David Clarke, ed. Methuen, London, pp. 106-166.
1972: Evolution and Horizon as Revealed in Ceramic Analysis -- A Step Toward the Development of Archaeological Science, in The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers, 1971, Volume 6. Columbia, South Carolina, pp. 117-125.
1972: The "Binford" Pipe Stem Formula: A Return from the Grave, in The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers, 1971, Volume 6., Columbia, South Carolina, pp. 230-253.
1973: Interassemblage Variability--the Mousterian and the "Functional Argument", in The Explanation of Culture Change: Models in Prehistory. C. Renfrew, ed. Duckworth, London, pp. 227-254.
1975: Sampling, Judgment, and the Archaeological Record, in Sampling in Archaeology. James W. Mueller, ed. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 251-257.
1976: Nunamiut Demographic History: A Provocative Case, in Demographic Anthropology. Ezra B. W. Zubrow, ed. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp. 63-144 (with Ezra B.W. Zubrow).
1976: Forty-Seven Trips, in Contributions to Anthropology: The Interior Peoples of Northern Alaska. Edwin S. Hall, ed. Archaeological Survey of Canada Paper 49. National Museum of Man Mercury Series. Ottawa, Canada, pp.299-351.
1977: Forty-Seven Trips: A Case Study in the Character of Archaeological Formation Processes, in Stone Tools as Cultural Markers. R.V.S. Wright, ed. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, pp. 24-36.
1977: Historical Archaeology--Lessons from the Nunamiut, in Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things. Leland Ferguson, ed. Society for Historical Archaeology Special Publication No. 2. pp.17-38.
1977: Bone Frequencies and Attritional Processes, in For Theory Building in Archaeology. Lewis R. Binford, ed. Academic Press, New York, pp. 77-153 (with Jack B. Bertram).
1977: Introduction, in For Theory Building in Archaeology. Lewis R. Binford, ed. Academic Press, New York. pp. 1-13.
1982: Meaning, Inference, and the Material Record, in Ranking, Resource and Exchange. C. Renfrew and S. Shannon, eds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 160-163.
1982: Objectivity--Explanation--Archaeology, 1981, in Theory and Explanation in Archaeology. C. Renfrew, M.J. Rowlands, and B.A. Segraves, eds. Academic Press, New York, pp. 125-138.
1983: Long Term Land Use Patterns: Some Implications for Archaeology, in Lulu Linear Punctated: Essays in Honor of George Irving Quimby. Robert C. Dunnell and Donald K. Grayson, eds. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan No. 72, pp.27-54.
1986: In Pursuit of the Future, in American Archaeology Past and Future: A Celebration of the Society for American Archaeology 1935-1985. David J. Meltzer, Don D. Fowler, and Jeremy A. Sabloff, eds. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 459-479.
1987: Researching Ambiguity: Frames of Reference and Site Structure, in Method and Theory for Activity Area Research. Susan Kent, ed. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 449-512.
1987: Searching for Camps and Missing the Evidence: Another Look at the Lower Paleolithic, in The Pleistocene Old World: Regional Perspectives. Olga Soffer, ed. Plenum, New York, pp. 17-31.
1988: Were There Elephant Hunters at Torralba?, in The Evolution of Human Hunting. M.H. Nitecki and D.V. Nitecki, eds. Plenum, New York, pp. 47-105.
1989: Isolating the Transition to Cultural Adaptations: An Organizational Approach, in The Emergence of Modern Humans. Erik Trinkaus, ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 18-41.
1989: The "New Archaeology," Then and Now, in Archaeological Thought in America. C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 50-62.
1989: The Potential of Experiments in Lithic Technology, in Experiments in Lithic Technology. Daniel S. Amick and Raymond R Mauldin, eds. BAR International Series 528, pp. 1- 14 (with D.S. Amick and R.P. Mauldin).
1990: Etude taphonomique des reste fauniques de la Grotte Vaufrey, Couche VII, in La Grotte Vaufrey: Paleoenvironnements, Chronologie, Activites Humaines. J-Ph. Rigaud, ed. Memoires Societe Prehistorique Francaise No. 19, pp. 535-563.
1991: When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going: Nunamiut Local Groups, Camping Patterns, and Economic Organization. In Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to Mobile Campsites: Hunter-Gatherer and Pastoralist Case Studies, W.A. Boismier and C.S. Gamble, eds. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, pp. 25-137.
1991: "There is Always More We Need to Know" in The First Americans. T.D. Dillehay and D.J. Meltzer, eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp.
1992a: "Seeing the Present and Interpreting the Past - and Keeping Things Straight" in Space, Time and Archaeological Landscapes. J. Rossignol and L.Wandsnider, eds. Plenum Press, New York, pp.
1992b: Subsistence, a Key to the Past, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, S. Jones, R. Martin, and D. Pilbeam, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 365-368.
1993: Bones for Stones: Considerations of Analogues for Features Found on the Central Russian Plain, From Kostenki to Clovis: Upper Paleolithic - Paleo-Indian Adaptations, O. Soffer and N.D. Praslov, eds, Plenum Press, New York, pp.101-124.
1994: Systematic Integration of "Fragmentary Oddments": The Challenge of Settlement Pattern Approaches, Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in the American Southwest, Bradley Vierra, ed, Eastern New Mexico University Contributions in Anthropology Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.527-565.
1995: Francois Bordes: Le Typhon Aimable des Recherches Paleolithiques, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology, , Timothy Murray ed., Cambridge University Press, (with Nancy M. Stone).
1998: Hearth and Home,Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Settlement Patterns, , N.J. Conrad and Fred Wendorf, eds. International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.

Reviews & Comments

1959: "Review of William Haag's Archaeology of Coastal North Carolina", American Anthropologist 61:337-338.
1961: "Review of The Archaeology of Hamilton County, Ohio by Frederic Staff", American Antiquity 26:571-572.
1965: "Review of An Archaeological Survey of the Wabash Valley in Illinois by Howard D. Winters", American Anthropologist 67:584-585.
1966: "Review of Papers in Honor of Emerson F. Greerman", American Anthropologist 68:1067-1068.
1967: "Review of The Quantitative Approach to the Relation Between Population and Settlement Size by S. F. Cook and Robert F. Heizer", Anthropologica n.s. 9:107-109.
1967: "Review ofArchaeology: Horizons New and Old. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", American Anthropologist 69:92-93.
1967: "Comments on K.C. Chang's 'Major Aspects of the Interrelationship of Archaeology and Ethnology'", Current Anthropology 8:234-236.
1968: "Review of K. C. Chang's Rethinking Archaeology", Ethnohistory 15:422-426.
1968: "Review of The Stone-Tipped Arrow: Late Stone-Age Hunters of the Tropical Old World by Bridget Allchin", American Anthropologist 70:412-413.
1968: "Review of A Guide to Field Methods in Archaeology: Approaches to the Anthropology of the Dead, by Robert R Heizer and John A. Graham with a chapter by Sonia Ragir", American Anthropologist 70:806-808.
1969: "Comment on 'Culture Traditions and Environment of Early Man' by Desmond Collins", Current Anthropology 10:297-299.
1969: "Comment on 'Trade and Culture Process in European History' by Colin Renfrew", Current Anthropology 10:162-163.
1971: "Comments on 'Computers in Archaeology'", Norwegian Archaeological Review 4:147.
1976: "Review of Cherokee Archaeology and Cherokee Prehistory by Bennie C. Keel and Roy S. Dickens", Journal of Anthropological Research 32:295-296.
1977: "Olorgesailie Deserves More than the Usual Book Review", Journal of Anthropological Research 33:493-502.
1977: "Review of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence and Settlement by M. A. Joachim", American Antiquity 42:431-433.
1979: "Comments on Confusion", American Antiquity 44:591-594.
1980: "Review of Living Archaeology by R. Gould", American Scientist 68:704-705.
1980: "Review of Reindeer and Caribou Hunters by A. Spiess", American Anthropologic 82:628-631.
1982: "On Arguments for the 'Butchering' of Giant Geladas", Current Anthropology 23:108-110 (with L.C. Todd).
1982: "Comments on 'Rethinking the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Transition'", Current Anthropology 23:177-181.
1983: "Reply to 'More on the Mousterian: Flaked Bone from Cueva Morin' by L. Freeman", Current Anthropology 24:372-377.
1983: "Review of Bison Kills and Bone Counts: Decision-Making by Ancient Hunters by J. Speth", Zooarchaeological Research News 2(4):10-12. (with Linda S. Mick).
1984: "Bones of Contention: A Reply to Glynn Isaac", American Antiquity 49:164-167.
1985: " 'Righteous Rocks' and Richard Gould: Some Observations on Misguided 'Debate' ", American Antiquity 50:151-153 (with Nancy M. Stone).
1986: "Reply to Haynes on 'Zhoukoudian' ", Current Anthropology 27:471-473.
1986: "Reply to Thackeray on the Klasies River Mouth Fauna", Current Anthropology 27:512-515.
1986: "Comment on Bunn and Kroll, 'Butchery by Olduvai Hominids'", Current Anthropology 27:444-446.
1986: "Reply to T.E.G. Reynolds on 'Zhoukoudian' ", Current Anthropology 27:369.
1986: "Reply to C.W. Marean 'On the Seal Remains from Klasies River Mouth' ", Current Anthropology 27:367-368.
1986: "Reply to Singer and Wymer, 'On Binford on Klasies River Mouth' ", Current Anthropology 27:57-62.
1987: "On Zhoukoudian: Reply to Comments", Current Anthropology 28:102-105 (with Nancy M. Stone).
1987: "On Inferences from the Zhoukoudian Fauna: Reply to Bunn and Kroll", Current Anthropology 28:358-362 (with Nancy M. Stone).
1988: "Review of Hodder, Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology", American Antiquity 53:875-876.
1988: "Archaeology and Theory: Reply to Ian Hodder", Man n.s. 23:374-376 (with Nancy M. Stone).
1989: "Response to Turner", Journal of Archaeological Science 16:13-16.
1990: "Comment on 'Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision' by Edwin Wilmsen and James Denbow", Current Anthropology 31:507-508.
1992: "Defining Ethnoarchaeology", Review of Recovering the Past by Richard Gould, American Scientist, 80:279-280 (with Nancy M. Stone).

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