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Do You See Yonder Cloud That's Almost in the Shape of a Camel? Reply to Peters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Norman Yoffee
Norman Yoffee*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Abstract

Discussion of various models of sociocultural evolution and their applicability to the explanation of archaeological data is certainly in order in reference to my recent article on the subject. Intemperate and unproductive remarks that miss the point of the article, however, deserve less attention. Here I shall simply respond to specific charges raised by Peters and then use the remainder of this reply to place my argument within the scope of some recent and larger considerations of archaeological model building.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1980 , pp. 601 - 604
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980 

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