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Application of the Wheat-Gifford-Wasley Taxonomy to Eastern Ceramics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Philip Phillips
Philip Phillips*
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Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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In a recent issue of this Journal a trio of Southwestern archaeologists proposed a new scheme of ceramic taxonomy that might, if widely followed, restore the possibility of intercommunication between specialists in North American archaeology (Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley 1958). I became interested in this scheme some time before its publication as a possible solution to certain typological difficulties in the Lower Mississippi Valley. One of the authors, James Gifford, encouraged my efforts to apply it to pottery so different from that for which it was devised, and, as an unforeseen result of numerous consultations with him, and with Stephen Williams, Gordon R. Willey, and Watson Smith, the present paper emerged.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , October 1958 , pp. 117 - 125
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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