@book {1931,
	title = {Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter-Gatherer and Environmental Data Sets},
	year = {2001},
	pages = {563},
	publisher = {University of California Press},
	organization = {University of California Press},
	address = {Berkeley},
	abstract = {<p>Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the \&quot;New Archaeology\&quot; changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford{\textquoteright}s intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise.This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called \&quot;ethnoarchaeology\&quot;--the study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological record--and this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations. The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.</p>},
	keywords = {Environmental archaeology., Human evolution, Hunting and gathering societies, Social archaeology, Social evolution},
	isbn = {0520223934},
	url = {http://lccn.loc.gov/00028714},
	author = {Binford, Lewis Roberts}
}
