COSTLY SIGNALING AND THE ASCENDANCE OF NO-CAN-DO ARCHAEOLOGY: A REPLY TO CODDING AND JONES.

While providing a review of some of the ethnographic literature surrounding hunting and Costly Signaling Theory. Codding and Jones offer no alternative framework for how this emerging theoretical approach might be applied to the archaeological record. In their view, Costly Signaling Theory lies beyond the pale of current archaeological inquiry, or at least our conception of it. We respond to this characterization by providing a specific methodological approach, combined with several additional applications, that answer Codding and Jones's call for greater linkage between the theory, and the archaeological record. Ultimately we believe that the archaeological record, with its temporal dimension, may illuminate some of the underlying aspects of Costly Signaling Theory that are otherwise obscured by more synchronic ethnographic studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]