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DEVELOPMENTS during the last 10 years make it apparent that the time has come for a general consideration of cultural classification and taxonomic determination, or systematics, as applied to archaeology. In a few recent articles, particularly by Kidder. Roberts, and Kluckhohn, critical discussion of our current Southwestern systematics has appeared. With the exception of the last named, this, however, has been very limited, largely because included in short papers or in introductions to monographs. A few writers have referred to difficulties in the application of systematic methods but have tacitly or expressly passed them off as unworthy of discussion longer than a few sentences or paragraphs. With this I do not agree. The present condition of archaeological research in the Southwestern field leads me to believe that a thorough and careful examination into the mechanical processes of classification, and into the logical assumptions behind it, is not only desirable but necessary.
Scepticism is a powerful aid to scientific thought. One must be bold enough to cast doubt both upon the theories of others and upon one’s own, and even upon the foundations of one’s own science and its method.
— Tallgren
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Brew, J.O. (1997). From The Archaeology of Alkali Ridge, Southeastern Utah . In: Lyman, R.L., O’Brien, M.J., Dunnell, R.C. (eds) Americanist Culture History. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5911-5_22
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