Description for Artifact Analysis

1 April 1947

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity

Vol. 12 (4) , 226-239
https://doi.org/10.2307/275052

Abstract

Suggestions that archaeologists cease their dalliance with inconsequential minutiae and concern themselves to some extent with conceptualization and problem have appeared a number of times in recent anthropological literature. This injunction is probably justified, and if archaeology is to contribute to our knowledge of the processes of culture and the historical interrelations of peoples it must broaden its scope of understanding and sharpen its tools of analysis. This is not as simple as might be hoped.

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