Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality: A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting

by William Y. Adams and Ernest W. Adams

Book Overview

Classifications are central to archaeology. Yet the theoretical literature on the subject, both in archaeology and the philosophy of science, bears very little relationship to what actually occurs in practice. This problem has long interested William Adams, a field archaeologist, and Ernest Adams, a philosopher of science, who describe their book as an ethnography of archaeological classification. It is a study of the various ways in which field archaeologists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521048672
• ISBN13: 9780521048675
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"