Cynthia L. Herhahn is the lead archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office. Her research interests include ceramic technology and technology transfer in the North American Southwest as well as mobility strategies in the Prehistoric Andes. She has published peer reviewed articles and contributed six chapters to edited volumes. This is her first book.Ann F. Ramenofsky is professor emerita in anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Her interests focus on native North American responses to European contact, especially introduced infectious diseases, and archaeological methodologies. She is author of Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact and co-editor, with Anastasia Steffen, of Unit Issues in Archaeology: Time, Space, and Material.

"Exploring Cause and Explanation is a welcome elaboration on three crucial social concepts, refracted through the lens of a specific culture area and time frame. Archaeologists will obviously benefit from it, as will cultural anthropologists, who have almost abandoned the search for causes and explanations, perhaps in fear of simple deterministic or reductionist thought. But in the end, is science not about finding causes and explanations for the empirical observations that we make?"—Anthropology Review Database

Cynthia L. Herhahn is the lead archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office. Her research interests include ceramic technology and technology transfer in the North American Southwest as well as mobility strategies in the Prehistoric Andes. She has published peer reviewed articles and contributed six chapters to edited volumes. This is her first book.Ann F. Ramenofsky is professor emerita in anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Her interests focus on native North American responses to European contact, especially introduced infectious diseases, and archaeological methodologies. She is author of Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact and co-editor, with Anastasia Steffen, of Unit Issues in Archaeology: Time, Space, and Material.

"Exploring Cause and Explanation is a welcome elaboration on three crucial social concepts, refracted through the lens of a specific culture area and time frame. Archaeologists will obviously benefit from it, as will cultural anthropologists, who have almost abandoned the search for causes and explanations, perhaps in fear of simple deterministic or reductionist thought. But in the end, is science not about finding causes and explanations for the empirical observations that we make?"—Anthropology Review Database

Cynthia L. Herhahn is the lead archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office. Her research interests include ceramic technology and technology transfer in the North American Southwest as well as mobility strategies in the Prehistoric Andes. She has published peer reviewed articles and contributed six chapters to edited volumes. This is her first book.Ann F. Ramenofsky is professor emerita in anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Her interests focus on native North American responses to European contact, especially introduced infectious diseases, and archaeological methodologies. She is author of Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact and co-editor, with Anastasia Steffen, of Unit Issues in Archaeology: Time, Space, and Material.

"Exploring Cause and Explanation is a welcome elaboration on three crucial social concepts, refracted through the lens of a specific culture area and time frame. Archaeologists will obviously benefit from it, as will cultural anthropologists, who have almost abandoned the search for causes and explanations, perhaps in fear of simple deterministic or reductionist thought. But in the end, is science not about finding causes and explanations for the empirical observations that we make?"—Anthropology Review Database