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The Peruvian Co-Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Wendell C. Bennett
Wendell C. Bennett*
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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The culture area concept as developed by Wissler has had only limited applicability to archaeology, since it depends too much on specific elements or traits, is too heavily weighted by subsistence, is not sharply enough defined, is too inclusive, and is too static in time. Although Wissler divided the New World into a number of archaeological culture areas, these have not been very meaningful, since they lump gross elements with total disregard for time, which results more in confusion than in significant classification.

Type
Peru as a Whole
Information
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 4: A Reappraisal of Peruvian Archaeology , 1948 , pp. 1 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1945

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References

1 Wissler, 1917.

2 Kroeber, 1939, p. 2.

3 Kroeber, 1939, p. 20.

4 Kroeber, 1939, p. 222.

5 Tello, 1942.

6 Means, 1931.

7 Bennett, 1946a.

8 Kroeber, 1944, p. 111.

9 Collier and Murra, 1943.

10 Means, 1931.

11 Larco, 1938-39.

12 Martin, Quimby, and Collier, 1947.

13 Vaillant, 1941.