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The Need-Achievement Test Applied to the Hohokam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bruce E. Rippeteau
Bruce E. Rippeteau*
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Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Arizona
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Abstract

Davies (1969) has applied the need-Achievement test of individual motivation in assessing the decline of Minoan Civilization. Such use of psychology for interpreting past events is potentially of great interest to anthropologically-oriented archaeologists. This paper, therefore, is a discussion of the theoretical aspects of such a proposition, a commentary on its previous applications, and a report of methodology and negative results for a similar test that I have applied to the prehistoric southwestern U.S. culture of the Hohokam.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 1972 , pp. 504 - 513
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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