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A Comment on Eugene L. Sterud's “Changing Aims in Americanist Archaeology: A Citation Analysis of American Antiquity–1946-1975”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Roger L. D. Cribb
Roger L. D. Cribb*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton S09 5NH, England
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Abstract

It is argued that the citation analysis of changing aims in archaeology by Sterud (1978) may not reflect the only or the most significant developments over the period studied. There is still considerable disagreement on the aims of archaeology, and there remains a tendency for archaeologists to split into competing schools. The interactions of these schools provide much of the impetus to growth and change in the discipline and are themselves potentially susceptible to citation analysis.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , April 1980 , pp. 352 - 354
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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