“…Although more limited in scope-not claiming worldwide generalizability-such studies show how comparative archaeological research can be used to discern and analyze events. Korotayev, Kazankov, Dreier, and Dmitrieva (2003) offer a problematic but undoubtedly diachronic analysis of changes in kinship terminology systems in the Circum-Mediterranean region by studying 18 societies, each at two points in time. The largest diachronic study undertaken by anthropological comparativists to date is that of Bradley, Moore, Burton, and White (1990), who use pinpointing not simply to specify the units being compared but to analyze the historical dimension of changes in subsistence patterns in 87 ethnographically attested small-scale societies to compare the effects of colonialism.…”