Ebert & Associates

Building upon theoretical and methodological directions arrived at in the course of ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological fieldwork with Basarwa (Bushmen) in Botswana in 1975-1976 as well as 30+ years of archaeological, ethnographic, and development-related fieldwork and research in the continental United States and Alaska as well as southern and eastern Africa (northern Kenya and at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania), Jim Ebert has developed a distributional archaeological approach to locating, characterizing, measuring and understanding the surface archaeological record.

Detailed in his book Distributional Archaeology (University of New Mexico Press 1992,and now available again in its 2nd Edition from the University of Utah Press, 2001), this approach questions whether the traditional concept of the archaeological "site" is - in many circumstances - useful or productive as a unit of data collection or analysis.

Bibliography: Distributional Archaeology and its Ethnographic, Ethnoarchaeological, and Other Theoretical Bases by Jim Ebert and colleagues