The Need-Achievement Test Applied to the Hohokam
- 1 October 1972
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 37 (4) , 504-513
- https://doi.org/10.2307/278956
Abstract
Davies (1969) has applied the need-Achievement test of individual motivation in assessing the decline of Minoan Civilization. Such use of psychology for interpreting past events is potentially of great interest to anthropologically-oriented archaeologists. This paper, therefore, is a discussion of the theoretical aspects of such a proposition, a commentary on its previous applications, and a report of methodology and negative results for a similar test that I have applied to the prehistoric southwestern U.S. culture of the Hohokam.Keywords
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