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| Epigraph | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Thinking About Things Differently | |
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| Approaches to Things | |
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| Themes About Things | |
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| Things are Not Isolated | |
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| Things are Not Inert | |
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| Things Endure over Different Temporalities | |
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| Things Often Appear as Non-things | |
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| The Forgetness of Things | |
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| What Is a Thing? | |
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| Humans and Things | |
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| Knowing Things | |
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| Conclusion: The Objectness of Things | |
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| Humans Depend on Things | |
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| Dependence: Some Introductory Concepts | |
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| Forms of Dependence | |
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| Reflective and Non-reflective Relationships with Things | |
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| Going Towards and Away From Things | |
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| Identification and Ownership | |
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| Approaches to the Human Dependence On Things | |
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| Being There with Things | |
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| Material Culture and Materiality | |
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| Cognition and the Extended Mind | |
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| Conclusion: Things R Us | |
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| Things Depend on Other Things | |
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| Forms of Connection between Things | |
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| Production and Reproduction | |
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| Exchange | |
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| Use | |
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| Consumption | |
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| Discard | |
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| Post-deposition | |
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| Affordances | |
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| From Affordance to Dependence | |
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| The French School - Operational Chains | |
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| Behavioral Chains | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Things Depend on Humans | |
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| Things Fall Apart | |
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| Behavioral Archaeology and Material Behavior | |
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| Behavioral Ecology | |
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| Human Behavioral Ecology | |
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| The Temporalities of Things | |
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| Conclusion: The Unruliness of Things | |
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| Entanglement | |
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| Other Approaches | |
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| Latour and Actor Network Theory | |
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| The Archaeology of Entanglement | |
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| The Physical Processes of Things | |
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| Temporalities | |
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| Forgetness | |
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| The Tautness of Entanglements | |
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| Types and Degrees of Entanglement | |
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| Cores and Peripheries of Entanglements | |
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| Contingency | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Fittingness | |
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| Nested Fittingness | |
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| Return to Affordance | |
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| Coherence: Abstraction, Metaphor, Mimesis and Resonance | |
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| Abstraction, Metaphor and Mimesis | |
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| Synaesthesia | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Coherence and Resonance at �atalh�y�k | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Evolution and Persistence of Things | |
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| Evolutionary Approaches | |
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| Evolutionary Ecology (HBE) | |
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| Evolutionary Archaeology | |
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| Dual Inheritance Theory | |
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| Evolution and Entanglement | |
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| Niche Construction | |
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| Evolution at �atalh�y�k | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Things happen… | |
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| The Complexity of Entanglements | |
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| Open, Complex and Discontinuous Entanglements | |
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| Unruly Things: Contingency | |
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| Conjunction of Temporalities | |
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| Catalysis: Small Things and the Emergence of Big Effects | |
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| Is there a Directionality to Entanglements? | |
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| Some Neolithic Examples | |
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| Macro-evolutionary Approaches | |
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| Why Do Entanglements Increase the Rate of Change? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Tracing the Threads | |
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| Tanglegrams | |
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| Locating Entanglements | |
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| Sequencing Entanglements - at �atalh�y�k | |
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| Sequencing Entanglements - the Origins of Agriculture in the Middle East | |
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| Causality and Directionality | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Object Nature of Things | |
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| Too Much Stuff? | |
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| Temporality and Structure | |
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| Power and Agency | |
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| To and from Formulaic Reduction | |
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| Things Again | |
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| Some Ethical Considerations | |
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| The Last Thing on my Mind | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |