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Stephenson and Krieger on “Culture Chronology in Texas”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

J. Charles Kelley
J. Charles Kelley*
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
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Stephenson's recent synthesis of Texas archaeology (1950) has evoked a markedly critical commentary from Krieger (1951). Krieger comments on the many inaccuracies which he finds therein. There are without question, mistakes of both omission and commission in Stephenson's paper. Nevertheless, the synthesis provides the general archaeologist with a relatively accurate, helpful and stimulating view of the aboriginal occupation of the entire State. It is my impression that a synthesis such as that of Stephenson must inevitably be inadequate or actually erroneous in detail. The significant point is that Stephenson has actually published and should be credited with a tentative and worth-while state-wide synthesis of Texas archaeology and, furthermore, has succeeded in evoking comment from both Krieger and the writer. The critical archaeologist who successively reads Stephenson's article, Krieger's criticism, and this commentary will certainly become acquainted not only with the established data of Texas archaeology but with many of the controversial points as well.

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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1951 , pp. 137 - 139
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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