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On the Use of the Concept of Area Co-Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2021

Irving Rouse
Irving Rouse*
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Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut May, 1953
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In 1947, at a conference on Peruvian archaeology held in Viking Fund headquarters in New York City, Wendell C. Bennett proposed a concept of area co-tradition and used it as a means of expressing certain characteristics of Peruvian culture history. He first defined the concept in abstract terms, then described the Peruvian co-tradition, and finally suggested the possibility that other area co-traditions might exist in the Southwestern United States, Middle America, and Northwest Argentina (Bennett, 1948).

Acting on Bennett's suggestion, Martin and Rinaldo (1951) subsequently worked out a Southwestern area Co-tradition in some detail. In addition, Willey (1953, p. 374) has suggested the existence of an Arctic or Eskimo cotradition and of three co-traditions in the Eastern United States: Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippi.

In the present paper, I shall confine myself to the use of the concept in Peru and the Southwest, since these are the only places where it has yet been applied in any detail.

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American Antiquity , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1953 , pp. 221 - 225
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1954

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