Books by R. Lee Lyman

Combining historical research with an explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, this work examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures. It also analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes in artefacts, sites, and people over time.

Illuminates the career of Theodore E. White and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. R. Lee Lyman works to fill gaps in the historical record and revisits some of White's analytical innovations from a modern perspective.

Presents a critical analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. This work uses a framework for the analysis that is founded on the contrast between two metaphysics used by evolutionary biologists in discussing their own discipline: materialistic/populational thinking and essentialistic/typological thinking.