Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach - Hardcover

Read, Dwight W

 
9781598741025: Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1598741020 ISBN 13: 9781598741025
Publisher: Left Coast Press, 2010

Synopsis

Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology for producing classifications that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for the archaeologist attempting to understand the relationship between material culture and ideational culture of ancient societies. This volume is valuable to upper level students and professional archaeologists across the discipline.

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Dwight W Read

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Publisher
Left Coast Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1598741020
ISBN 13 
9781598741025
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
364

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