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Rates of Culture Change in Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George I. Quimby
George I. Quimby*
Affiliation:
Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, Ill.
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Abstract

Both the rate and the amount of culture change through time may be determined by comparing traits of one temporal segment of a continuum with other segments in progression from the oldest to the youngest segment. Additive and subtractive changes, or innovations and losses, must be evaluated against the time scale rather than balanced against one another, because of the time lag which may occur even if an innovation does produce a corresponding loss.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , January 1960 , pp. 416 - 417
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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References

Quimby, G. I. and Spoehr, Alexander 1951 Acculturation and Material Culture — I. Fieldiana: Anthropology, Vol.36, No. 6, pp. 107–47. Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago.Google Scholar