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SEVERAL years ago, Kluckhohn (1939) upbraided anthropologists in gen-eral and archeologists in particular for failure to examine critically the assumptions and concepts which lie at the foundations of their methodologies. Perhaps this well justified censure has prompted the healthy introspection that has developed in the past decade and resulted in valuable papers such as those by Rouse (1939), Krieger (1944), Brew (1946), Taylor (1948), and Ehrich (1950).
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Ford, J.A. (1997). On the Concept of Types. 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_30
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