Artifact Classification

A Conceptual and Methodological Approach

By: Dwight W Read

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Paperback | 30 April 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology for producing classifications that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for the archaeologist attempting to understand the relationship between material culture and ideational culture of ancient societies. This volume is valuable to upper level students and professional archaeologists across the discipline.

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"'Eleven carefully crafted, thoughtful chapters span the history, method, and theory of the classification of material culture. Among other topics, Read considers intuitive and objective classifications, paradigms, patterning, numerical taxonomy, modality, and variable redundancy. Read's research on stone tools and ceramics and his pedagogical skills help fine tune the narrative and make a difficult, complex subject informative, instructive, and readable. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' CHOICE --This text refers to the Library Binding edition. "This important contribution summarises a lifetime involvement with teaching, developing and debating approaches to artifact classification Dwight Read brings to this task his own varied contributions and highly developed logical and mathematical skills...it is a valuable study of some key issues in and approaches to archaeological practice." - David Frankel, Australian Archaeology"

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