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School of Thought in Archaeology: A Comment on Two Recent Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert Ascher
Robert Ascher*
Affiliation:
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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Abstract

Two recent articles in this journal misidentify a theoretical orientation and then contrast this misidentification with another orientation. Archaeology does not gain in this way.

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 506 - 507
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1968

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