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Horizon and Tradition in the Northern Plains1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald J. Lehmer  and
Warren W. Caldwell
Donald J. Lehmer
Affiliation:
Dana College, Blair, Nebraska
Warren W. Caldwell
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Abstract

Organization of the great mass of data accumulated during the salvage archaeology program in the Missouri River Basin poses a number of problems. One of the most fundamental is the choice of a satisfactory taxonomic system. The version of the Midwestern taxonomic system which has been used so far in the area has a number of shortcomings. In order to avoid some of them, data from the Missouri Valley in the Dakotas are organized here in terms of the Willey and Phillips system of "archaeological unit concepts." The classification which has emerged seems to have considerable merit; the application of the system itself to a particular archaeological situation has also suggested some modification of the categories which Willey and Phillips proposed.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 1966 , pp. 511 - 516
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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Footnotes

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Submitted with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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