Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Understanding archaeological diversity is key to understanding human culture in the past. Archaeologists have long experienced a tenuous relationship with statistics; however, the regular integration of diversity measures and concepts into archaeological practice is becoming increasingly important. This volume includes chapters that cover a wide range of archaeological applications of diversity measures. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

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Foreword
Introduction. On the Challenges of Measuring Diversity in Archaeology
Chapter 1. Dispersion and Diversity: Parfleche Variation on the Great Plains vs. the Columbia Plateau
Chapter 2. The Diversity of North America’s “Old Copper” Projectile Points
Chapter 3. Diversity in Hunter-Gatherer Architecture
Chapter 4. The Potential of Coverage-Based Rarefaction in Zooarchaeology
Chapter 5. Diversity and Lithic Microwear: Quantification, Classification, and Standardization
Chapter 6. Intensification Mechanisms Driving Dietary Change among the Great Plains Big Game Hunters of North America
Chapter 7. Challenges and Prospects of Richness and Diversity Measures in Paleoethnobotany
Chapter 8. Quantifying Evenness of Paleoindian Projectile Point Forms within Geographic Regions of Eastern North America
Chapter 9. Thinking about Diversity in Material Culture at Multiple Scales
Chapter 10. Measuring and Comparing Class Diversity in Archaeological Assemblages: A Brief Guide to the History and State-of-the-Art in Diversity Statistics
Epilogue. Diversity Metrics are Convenient, but Their Archaeological Meanings Are Still Obscure
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