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Making Nature Answer to Interpretivism: Response to J. E. Arnold, R. H. Colten, and S. Pletka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

L. Mark Raab  and
Katherine Bradford
L. Mark Raab
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330
Katherine Bradford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330
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Abstract

In a 1995 paper, Raab et al. questioned Arnold’s assertion that high sea temperatures in prehistoric southern California resulted in maritime subsistence disaster. The current discussion by Arnold et al. argues that our data were flawed and taken out of sociocultural context. Not only are these claims unfounded, they are based largely on an unfortunate strategy of combining uniformitarian and interpretivist analytical frameworks

Es un artículo publicado en 1995, Raab et al. cuestionaron el argumento de Arnold de que las altas temperaturas marínas en el sur de California resultaron en un desastre para la subsistencia marltima prehistírica. La discusiín actual de Arnold et al. sostiene que nuestros datos son erríneos y están fuera del contexto sociocultural. Estos comentarios no sílo son infundados, ellos están basados en una desafortunada estrategia que combina marcos analíticos uniformitarios e ”interpretivistas.”

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American Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 340 - 341
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1997

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