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A History of the Phase Concept in the Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alan P. Olson
Alan P. Olson*
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Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Ariz.
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Abstract

Early in the 1930's Gladwin applied the phase concept to Southwestern material. The operational basis of this method of ordering cultural units in time and space was subsequently expanded through Gila Pueblo's research, especially in the Mogollon and Hohokam culture areas. The phase was the minimum unit in the dendritic system of cultural taxonomy which Gladwin developed. Other students whose research has mainly been centered south of the Mogollon rim have refined the definition of the concept, added to its applications, and stripped it of some of its earlier taxonomic connotations. Sophisticated survey, metric stratigraphy, the development of regional sequences, and the refinement of method in general in the Southwest have paralleled the usefulness of the concept. The Southwestern usage of phase is compared with the derivative concept presented by Willey and Phillips and with the several methods of phase correlations discussed by Rouse.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , April 1962 , pp. 457 - 472
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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