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Comments on Cordell and Plog's “Escaping the Confines of Normative Thought”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson*
Affiliation:
c/o Pacific Studies Institute, P. O. Box 20820, GMF, Guam, M. Is. 96921
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Abstract

Cordell and Plog's recent article in American Antiquity is criticized. It is maintained that their alternative suggestions for redescription and interpretation of the Southwestern archaeological data base are not supported by theories and therefore are no more desirable than the traditional conceptual schemes employed thus far.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 194 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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