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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 14 MODELS IN ARCHAEOLOGY This page intentionally left blank MODELS IN ARCHAEOLOGY Edited by DAVID L. CLARKE Firstpublishedin1972 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2015 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1972TheestateofDavidL.Clarke Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-79971-4(Set) eISBN:978-1-315-75194-8(Set) ISBN:978-1-138-81297-0(Volume14) eISBN:978-1-315-74847-4(Volume14) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisbookbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsfromtheoriginalmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. Models in Archaeology EDITED BY DAVID L. CLARKE METHUEN & CO LTD II NEW FETTER LANE LONDON EC4 First published 1972 by Methuen & Co Ltd 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4 © 1972 Methuen & Co Ltd Printed in Great Britain by William Clowes & Sons> Limited London5 Beccles and Colchester SBN 416 16540 o Distributed in the USA by HARPER & ROW PUBLISHERS INC. BARNES & NOBLE IMPORT DIVISION TO A MODEL BABY - ANDREW DAVID CLARKE An indirect artificial hardware model. A model of the correlation values between attributes within the artefact type population of British beaker pottery c. 2000­ 1500 B.C. The current weakness of this and comparable cluster analysis models of archaeological data is that no a priori models have yet been developed with which to compare these a posteriori models for goodness of fit and evaluation. Contents List of Figures xi List of Plates xxi Acknowledgements xxiii 1 Models and paradigms in contemporary archaeology I D. L. CLARKE 2 The methodological debate in contemporary archaeology: a model 6i j. N. HILL 3 Contemporary model building: paradigms and the current state of Palaeolithic research 109 L. R. BINFORD 4 Early phases of human behaviour: models in Lower Palaeolithic archaeology 167 G. LL. ISAAC 5 Research design models 201 S. G. H. DANIELS 6 A model for classification and typology 231 J. N. HILL AND R. K. EVANS 7 What mean these stones ? Ethno-taxonomic models and archaeo­ logical interpretations in the New Guinea Highlands 275 J. P. WHITE AND D. H. THOMAS 8 Introduction to imaginary models for archaeological scaling and clustering 309 LEROY JOHNSON, JR 9 Models, methods and techniques for seriation 381 G. L. COWGILL io Computer models as tools for archaeological hypothesis formation 425 J. E. DORAN vii

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This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their fields of study. The twenty-six original contributions repr
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