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In Favor of Simple Typology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James A. Ford
James A. Ford*
Affiliation:
American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.
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Abstract

Proponents of the “type-variety” method of ceramic analysis are criticized for mixing analytical units and the rank hierarchies appropriate to synthesis, and for semantically substituting “type-variety” for “type” without actually changing the method of analysis.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , July 1961 , pp. 113 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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