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Volume 44 - October 1979

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  • A Further Criticism of the Type-Variety System: The Data can't Be Used

  • Michael E. Smith
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 January 2017, pp. 822-826

  • The type-variety system of ceramic classification has been criticized on a number of theoretical points concerning typology in general; yet it remains very popular among archaeologists. This paper adds a methodological criticism to the debate: ceramic data presented according to the highest standards of type-variety analysis simply cannot be used for independent reanalysis. An attempt to reanalyze some data presented according to the type-variety system [Formative period ceramics from the site of Barton Ramie, Belize] is described, and shortcomings of type-variety data presentation are pointed out. These findings are in direct opposition to claims made by type-variety practitioners as to the adequacy of their format of ceramic description and illustration.

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  • AAQ volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    20 January 2017, pp. f1-f4
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  • AAQ volume 44 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    20 January 2017, pp. b1-b5
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  • AAQ volume 44 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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    20 January 2017, pp. b1-b3
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