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The Use of Historic Analogs in Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert L. Schuyler
Robert L. Schuyler*
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University of California, Santa Barbara, California
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Abstract

Historical sources are a potentially rich and as yet almost untouched source of specific and general analogies for use in archaeological interpretation. In particular, certain unique sources, such as Diderot’s Encyclopédie, offer many specific examples, but more generally history offers the archaeologist the chance to formulate broad analogies dealing with basic questions of cultural evolution.

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American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 1968 , pp. 390 - 392
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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