Technological Perspectives on Behavioral Change

by Michael Brian Schiffer

Human societies have always been characterized by a dependence on artifacts, from prehistoric stone tools to modern electronic devices. Technology responds to and affects virtually all human behavior; yet the interdependence of behavior and artifacts has never been studied intensively. Archaeologist Schiffer now draws on his discipline's familiarity with artifacts--and the processes of change they reveal--to offer new insight into the study of behavioral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816511950
• ISBN13: 9780816511952
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.