<p>Seminar, three hours. Limited to graduate anthropology and archaeology students. Discussion of issues that have guided arguments about how archaeological classification of artifacts should be conducted, with focus on ceramic classification and discovery of cultural types. Methods for implementing discovery approach to classification illustrated with lithic and pottery examples. Review of relationship between classification, style, and function. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Anthropology

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Classification in Archaeology: Method and Theory

ANTHRO 211

4 units