Cladistics and archaeology
O’Brien, Michael John, Lyman, R. Lee
In Cladistics and Archaeology, Michael O'Brien and Lee Lyman explore the application of cladistics to archaeology by considering artifacts as human phenotypic characters. Their fundamental premise is that particular kinds of characters (style, artifact type, tool) can be used to create historically meaningful nested taxa. Further, they argue that this approach offers a means of building connections and ...
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Year:
2003
Publisher:
University of Utah Press
Language:
english
Pages:
280
ISBN 10:
0874807751
ISBN 13:
9780874807752
File:
DJVU, 1.92 MB
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english, 2003