"In a collection of papers spanning
      some 20 years of work, Steward argues persuasively that cultural change
      consists of complex, continuing processes, rather than isolable acts or
      events of unitary character ('diffusion'  versus 'independent invention')....
      With the increasing preponderance of studies of cultural change in archaeology
      as well as anthropology this volume assumes as much importance for the prehistorian
      as for the student of contemporary societies."
      -- American Antiquity