Formation Processes and the Archaeological Record, 1996, 428 p. -

This handbook synthesizes the most important principles of cultural and environmental formation processes for both students and practicing archaeologists ; it embodies a vision that the cultural past is knowable, but only when the nature of the evidence is thoroughly understood. It shows how the past is accessible in practice by identigying variability introduced by the divers effects of people and nature that in some sum, form the archaeological record. For Students, it is intended as both introduction and guide in method and theory, field work, and analysis. Practicing archaeologists will find it a valuable checklist of sources of variability when observations on the archaeological record are used to justify inferences.