Preliminaries -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Style and Function An Introduction -- 2 Differential Persistence of What The Scale of Selection Issue in Evolutionary Archaeology -- 3 Directionality Function and Adaptation in the Archaeological Record -- 4 Explaining the Co occurrence of Traits in the Archaeological Record A Further Consideration of Replicative Success -- 5 Culture Historical and Biological Approaches to Identifying Homologous Traits -- 6 Neutrality Style and Drift Building Methods for Studying Cultural Transmission in the Archaeological Record -- 7 Style, Function, and Variation -- 8 A Million Years of Style and Function Regional and Temporal Variation in Acheulean Handaxes -- 9 Implications of New Studies of Hawaiian Fishhook Variability for Our Understanding of Polynesian Settlement History -- 10 Style Function and Systematic Empiricism The Conflation of Process and Pattern -- Index -- About the Contributors.