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MOTION 1:
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"That Senate approve, and recommend approval to
the Board of Governors, the new course proposals
as set forth in S.75-68, for
ARC. 333-3 - Special Topics in Archaeology I
ARC. 365-5 - Ecological Archaeology
ARC. 376-5 - Quantitative Methods in Archaeology."
If the above motion is approved,
MOTION 2:
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"That the normal two semester time lag requirement
be waived in order that ARC. 376 may be first
offered in the Fall Semester 1975."
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At its meeting of 25th March, the Senate Committee
on Undergraduate Studies discussed the attached proposals for:
Archaeology 333-3: Special Topics in Archaeology;
Archaeology 365-5: Ecological Archaeology; and
Archaeology 376-5: Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
These courses are now forwarded to Senate for its consideration, with
the Committee's recommendation that they be approved.
The Committee approved these proposals with a number
of minor revisions which have been incorporated into the course
proposal forms. It should also be noted that two additional courses,
Archaeology 410-4: Advanced Archaeometry and Archaeology 411-5:
Archaeological Dating, were returned to the Department for clarification
and amplification of the proposals.
The Committee also recommends that, should these
proposals be accepted by Senate, a second motion waiving the normal
two-semester time lag requirement in the case of Archaeology 376 be
approved to enable it to be offered in the Fail semester, 1975.
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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
(See Section B)
MEMORANDUM
W!.M ?
Registrar ?
.Fro
m
.............
Smith
.....
.
Dean
Faculty of Arts
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Subject ?
Course
.PP9!.
.s
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Date
...............
March
10, 1975
ARCHAEOLOGY
The Faculty of Arts has approved by referendum ballot the following
new course proposals. Would you please place these on the agenda
of the next SCUS meeting.
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CUflRICULUM flflVIfl ION
English 100-3, Writing
English 101-3, Introduction to Fiction
English 102-3, Introduction to Poetry
English 103-3, Introduction to Dram
English 204-3, Literature of t
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liddle Ages and Renaissance
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English 205-3, Literature ?
the Late Renaissance and Enlightenmen
English 206-3, Liter ure of the Romantic and Victorian Periods
English 221-3,
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nadian Literature
English 2 -3, American Literature
Eng1 ?
226-3, Ancient Literature in Translation
1..i.sh-..2a7 a, Post Gi p
esieni Literat-ure in Tranlatien
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Archaeology 333-3, Special Topics in Archaeology I
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Archaeology 365-5, Ecological Archaeology
Archaeology
376-5,
Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Ai m
chaeo4ogy-41O- ..Advaeed-Achacornctry
Archacolegy--4--l--5-ehaee-logical Datirg.
CAx'ehaoology 80& 5,
pccial
Topic3
in
Archacol-ogy
Thank you.
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W.A.S. Smith
The proposal course ARC 365 - Ecological Archaeology has 'been
reviewed by the Department of Biological Sciences. ARC 365 does
not significantly overlap with the courses presently offered in
the Biology department. Thank you for bringing this course to our
attention.
Sincerely
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C. L. Kemp,
Chairman, DUCC
Biological Sciences.
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SATE COMMITTEE ON LCRCRADUATE STUDIES
NEW
C0tRSE PROPOSAL PORN
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.
Clertd.ir Information
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Departoeat:
Archaeology
AbrevLation Code;
ARC ?
Course Numbers
333 ?
Credit Hours:
3 ?
Vector:) -
% -C
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Title of Course:
SPECIAL TOPICS
IN
ARCHAEOLOGY I
Calendar Description of Cour..:
This course will be offer'ed from time to time to meet special needs of
students and to make use of specializations of visiting faculty members.
This will be a lecture and seminar course with variable format
Nature of Course
depending upon faculty members teaching it and subject matter
covered within it.
Prerequisite* (or sp.cia.l. instructions):
?
Lecture/Seminar
What
cours• (course.), if say, is being
dropped
from the
calendar if this
course
is
approved:
None
2.
SchedulLn
Row frequently will
the
course be offered?
As needed, presumably about once a year.
Semester in which the
course will first be offered?
763
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.Which of your
present facu.ltywoul4 be
available
to ask. the proposed offering
possible?
Most of our present faculty could use a course like this to present a special
topic for which there might be insufficientdemand to warrant institutin. a
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3.
Objectives of the Course
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regular scheduled course.
The course will broaden ow? curriculum by permitting the offering of special topics,
particularly by visiting faculty members.
• 4.
fludetary and Space Requirements
(for Information only)
•
What
additions],
resources will be required in the following sreass
Faculty ?
None ?
•
Staff ?
None
SpNCe
Audio
Library
?
visa
?
None
NoneNone ??
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Co Cf
J1AN31975
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&i
Equipment
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None
?
.
5. Approval
Date'
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Dcpartent Chairman
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Dean
?
Chairman,
SCLIS
SCIJS
73-34L:_
(When
completing this form, for instruction. see
Xeaoraidum
SCL1S 73-36*.
SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
To
...................
Department of Archaeology
W.A.S. smith, ?
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From
.........• M. Hobler, Acting chairman ......
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Dean ofArts
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Sub jed........
Archaeology
SpecialTopics
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Date
........... January
-
30,1975
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According to your request, I have listed below some
of the topics that might be taught under our proposed Special Topics
course. These are by no means the only subjects that might be taught,
nor do we wish to be held to having to teach each of them. They are
simply examples of what might be covered.
Asian Prehistory
Oceanian Prehistory
European Prehistory
Ethnoarchaeology
Zooarchaeology
Experimental Archaeology
Primitive Technology
Museology
Conservation Archaeology
Pre-Columbian Art
Prehistoric and Primitive Art of
Asia.
Prehistoric and Primitive Art of Oceania
Prehistoric and Primitive Art of Afriea
Prehistoric and Primitive Art of North America
Human Paleoecology
Specific Problems in fossil man - for example, the
Australopithiciries,
or
the Neanderthals.
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Department Chairman
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Chairman, SCUS
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNt
RCADUATE
STUDIES
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL
FORM
Department: Archaeology
Course
Number
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265
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Credit Hours; 5 Vector:
Title of Course: Ecological Archaeology
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seminar
Calendar Description of
Cou
r
s
e:Deals with the techniques for reconstruction of past
environments, as well as the effect of environment on past settlements and people.
Environment as considered in the course will encompass the presence of other settle-
ments, and deal with relationships between settlements.
Calendar Information
Abbreviation Code
Nature of Course
?
Seminar
Prerequisites (or special instructions
?
ARC.
101
What
approved:
course (courses), if
any,
is being dropped from the calendar If this course is
2.
Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
?
at least once every two years
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
•
Which
possible?
of your present faculty would be available to make
the
proposed offering
3.
Objectives of the Course The course will deal in detail with past environments, and
principles of interaction with the physical environment which determine settlement
characteristics. Important emphasis will be placed on settlement pattern studies,
and theory of settlement interactions as well as settlement succession stages, states
of equilibria and change. Effects of population densities on prehistoric settlements
and qualitites of life will also be an Integral part of the course.
4. Bdetary
and
Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty ?
None ?
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Staff
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None ?
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Library ?
None
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Audio Visual ?
None ?
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O/
Space
?
None
Equipment ?
None. ?
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SCUS 73-34b-
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com p
leting this form, for instruet{nnq
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COURSE OUTLINE:
I.
General principles of ecological archaeology:
energy
U.
General principles of ecological archaeology:
ecosystems
III. System boundaries and
cultural properties
IV.
Population vs. resources:
demography:
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detection
in the
archaeological record
V.
Beating the system:
economic alliances, kinship
alliances
V.
and social alliances:
implications for material
goods and
genetic dines
VI.
Medical anthropology
and epidemiology
VII.
VIII.
X.
..
XII.
Effects of stress
Hunter/gathers: past and present
Horticulturalists and food production: problems for the
archaeologist
Agriculturalists
Adapting to the presence of others
Warfare: adaptive or not? Implications for material
culture (the elusive war).
XIII. Contemporary implications of archaeological theory.
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COURSE READINGS:
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General Principle:
Butzer, K. 1971. Environment and Archaeology
Oderm. 1971. Fundamentals of Ecology.
Resources & Demography
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Adams, R. 1965. Land Behind Bagdad
Spooner, B. (ed.) 1972. Population Growth
Solomon, N. 1969. Population Dynamics
Acsdi, Gy and J. Nemeskeri. 1970. History of Human life Span
and Mortality.
Alliance
•
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Sanders, W. and B. Price. 1968. Mesoainerica
Harris, M. 1971. Culture, Man and Nature
Medical anthro & epidemiology
- Stott, D. 1969. "Cultural and natural checks on population growth."
Bunter-gatherer
Lee, R. and I. Devore. 1968. Man the Hunter.
Biccheri, M. 1972. Hunters and Gatherers Today.
Horticulturalists and Food Production
Binford, L. 1968, "Post Pleistocene Adaptations:
Flannery, K. 1969. "The ecology of early food production in Mesopotamia."
Duinond, D.E. 1969. "Swidden agriculture and the rise of Maya Civilization."
Agriculturalists
Stevenson, R. 1966. Population Density and State Formation in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Steward, J. 1960. Irrigation Civilizations
Adapting to the Presence of Others
Marcus J. 1973. Territorial organization of the Classic Maya."
Haggitt, P. 1965. Locational Analysis.
Rathje. 1969. "The daily grind: Mesoamerican trade."
Warfare
M. Fried, M. Harris and Murphy. 1967. War: the anthropology
of armed conflict and aggression.
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SENATE CO*tITTEE ON UNtRCRDUATE STUDIES
NEW COLRSE PROPOSAL
FORK
.alcnd.ir Information
?
Depatz
?
Archaeology
Ab,reviation Code:
Arc.
Course Numbers
376 -
Credit Koura* 5
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Vector: 3-0-2
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Title of Course: Quantitative
Methods in Archaeology
Calendar Description
of
Course:
Theory, method and operation of the application of
statistical techniques to the description, classification, analysis and interpretation
of archaeological'data.
jecl
Nature
of Course
Lecture and
laboratory course introducing the use of basic quantitative
methods in the solution of archaeological problems.
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
MATH 101 or equivalent; ARC. 101; ARC. 372; ARC. 371.
Wha t
courts
(colirsss if an
y
., is
haina
droned
from the cal.ndat if this cours. is
approved:
2.
Scheduling
How frcq.eatly
'viii the course be offered?
?
Annually
Ssnster in which
the course viii first be offered?
Fall 1975
•
hich of your present faculty
would be available to make *the
propo..4
offering
,iossible? ?
Jack D. Nance.
3.
Objectives of the Course
?
To give students a working knowledge of the theory of and
rationale for applying quantitative techniques to the testirg of hypotheses
regarding archaeological data and the solution of common
archaeological problems.
4.
fludEetary
and Space Requirements (for information only)
What ndditional
resources will be required in the following
ar.ass
Faculty ?
None
Staff ?
None
Library ?
None ?
.
e
? b
?
Audio Visual
None ?
.
SpNce ?
None
Equipment ?
None
3.
Approval
te
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(J
IT
w
D.parcaent
Chairman
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De
an ?
chairman,
SCUS
SCV 73-34b:- (When
co1.tin g this fora. for
instructions
see M.moraAdua SCUS 73-34*.
Course Outline
J. D. Nance
January 1975
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ARCHAEOLOGY 376
QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
1. ?
General Nature and Purpose:
Application of quantitative techniques to the testing of hypotheses
about the meaning of specific sets of archaeological data. Primary
emphasis will be upon the kinds of data with which archaeologists work,.
appropriate quantitative measures to apply to these data and meaning
of the statistical results. Overall objective is to give students
a working knowledge of the use of quantitative techniques as applied
to description, classification, analysis and interpretation of
archaeologically-derived objects and information.
II.
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Course Requirements:
Students will be expected to undertake a quantitative examination of
a set of archaeological data. The results of the investigation will
be presented in a research paper. A take-home examination will
constitute the final.
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III. Reading:
See attached reading list.
L]
.,,
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ARCHAEOLOGY 376
IV. Course Outline:
1.
Why quantitative analyses?
2.
The role of quantitative method in archaeology.
3.
Terminology and notation.
4.
Basic quantitative notions.
5.
Archaeological data: kinds and characteristics.
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Archaeological concepts and units of observation.
Basic sampling units in archaeology.
Describing archaeological distributions.
Applications of the normal durve in archaeology.
Probability and archaeological inference.
Applications of the binomial distribution in archaeology.
Hypothesis testing in archaeology.
Intra-occupation artifact variability.
Inter-occupation artifact variability.
Correlation and regression: definition of archaeological
relationships.
16. Non-parametric statistical applications.
17. Seriation: Time/space studies.
18. Generation of statistical taxa.
a.
Use of chi square
b.
Numerical taxonomy
19. The statistics of dating.
. . .
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'Jack D. Nance
ARC. 376
QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
READING ?
LIST
Belous, .
1953 ?
The Central California sequenel r...3cam.ifled.
Arrerican Antiquit 18:3"l-353.
Binford, L.R.
1968 ?
New
perspectives in archaeology.
Aldin.,
Chicago.
Useveral articles by Longacre. Whallon, et. al.)
Borillo, H.
197'.
?
A few
remarks on 'hal1on'S "A new approach to pottery
typology." American Antiguity, 39:371-372.
Brainerd, G.W.
1951
?
The place
of
chronological ordering in archaeological?
analysis. American Antiquity, 16:301-313.
Brothwell, D.
1969 ?
Stones, pots and people:a plea for statistical
caution. In: Science and Archaeology.
• ?
D. Brothwell and E. Higgs Ctds.). lanes
and
Hudson, London.
Casteel, R.
1974
?
A method for estimation of live fish weight from the
size of
skeletal elements. knerican Antiquity.
39:9"-97.
Clarke D. L.
1968 ?
Analytical Archaeology,
Mrb1u1u, I.evikr,
Cole, J. P
.
. and C.A.M. King
1960
?
Quantitative Geography. John Wiley, New York.
Dacay, H.
3973 ?
Statistical tests of spatial association
in the
location of tool types. American Antiquity
38:320-328.
Deetz,
J.
and E. Dethlefsert
1965 ?
The
doppler effect and achaeolOgy:...SOUthWe3terfl
Journal of Anthropology. 21:196-206.
Dempsey, P.
knd H.A. Baurnhoff
1963 ?
The statistical use
of
artifact distribution to
.
S
?
establish chronological sequence.
American Antiqul
31:502-510.
Deth1eSefl
i
E. and S. Deetz
1966 ?
Deaths heads,
cherubs and willow tr.e$$.
$
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American AntiquiL 31z502-510.
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a
?
•
Arc.
376. ?
Reading List, cont'd.
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Ferguson, C. A.
1959 ?
Statistical Analysis in Psychology and Education.
McGraw-Hill, New York.
Fitting, J.
1965 ?
A
quantitative examination of
Virginia fluted point..
American Antiquity 30:484-491
Harkins, P.B. et.al
.
1973 ?
Introduction to computer programming for the social
-
?
sciences. Allyn and Bacon, Boston.
Kroeber, A. L.
1940 ?
Statistical classification. American Antiquity
6:29-44.
Kruibein, W. C.
and F. A. Graybill
1965
?
An Introduction to statistical models in c'eoloy
McGraw-Hill, New York.
Lewis, T.
and H. Xneberg
1960 ?
The Archaic culture in
the middle
south.
American
Antiquity. 25:161-183.
McNemar, Q.
1962 ?
Psychological statistics. John
Wiley, New
York.
Movius, H. et. al.
1968 ?
The analysis of certain m.ajc'r
classes of Upper
Palaeolithic tools. American
School of Prehistoric
Research,
Bulletin #26
Rackerby, F.
1973 ?
A
statistical determination
of the Black Sand
occupation at the Macoupin
site, Jersey Co.,
Illinois. American Antiquity 38:96-101.
Read, D. W.
1974
?
Some comments on the use of mathematical
models in
archaeology. American Antiquity
39:3-15.
Robinson, W. S.
1951
?
A
method for chronologically ordering
archaeological
deposits. American Antiquity 16:293-301.
Sackett, J.
1966
?
Quantitative analysis of Upper Palaeolithic
stone
tools. Recent Studies in Palaeoanthropolorv. A
special publication of American Anthropologist.
•
Siegel, S.
• ?
1956 ?
Non parametric statistics for the behavioral sciences
McGraw-Hill, New York.
Spaulding, A.
?
1953 ?
-Statistical
techniques
for the discovery of artifact
types. American Antiquity
?
18:305-313.
Arc.
376 -
Reading List, cont'd.
Spaulding, A.
1960 ?
Statistical description
and
comparison of
. ?
artifact
assemblages.
In: The a1icacn of
quantitative methods in archaeolc'r':.
7. }
fiizer
and S. Cook (Eds.). Viking Fund 71ications
in
Anthropology.
19$0
The
dimensions of
archaeology.
?
In:tssavs
in the
science of culture. ?
Thomas
Crowell ?
New York.
Thomas, D. H.
1969
Great Basin hunting patterns:
?
a quantitative method
for treating faunal remains.
?
Arerican At1cutv
311:392.401.
1969
Regional sampling in archaeology:
?
a pilot Great
Basin research
design. ?
University of California
Archaeological Survey (Los Angeles),
Report ?
1968-69.
1971
On the use of cumulative curves and nurerical
taxOnomy. ?
American Antiquity.
?
36:206-209.
1974
Predicting the past. ?
Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Tugby, D.
1958
A typological analysis of
axes
and choppers
from
southeast Asia.
?
American Antiquity ?
211:211-33.
Tugby, D.
1965
Archaeological objectives and statistical rethods:
:
?
•
a
frontier in archaeology. ?
American Ar.tiquity.
31:1-16.
1969
Archaeology and statistics.
?
In: ?
Science in
archaeology.
?
D. ?
Brothwell
and E.
Riggs ?
(Eds.),
Thames and Hudson, London.
Veidran, R. K.
1967
Fortran programming for the behavioral sciences.
Washburn, D.
1974
Nearest neighbor analysis
of Pueblo I -
III settle-
ment patterns along the Rio Puerco of the East,
New Mexico. ?
American Antiquity ?
39:315-3311.
Whal]on, R.
1972
A new approach to pottery typology.
?
American
Antiquity ?
37:13-33.
Williams, L.,D.
H. Thomas and R. ?
Bettinger
. ?
1973
Notions to
Numbers: ?
Great Basin
settlement patterns
as
polythetic
sets. ?
In Research and Theor y
in
Current Archaeology.
?
Charles
?
edr.an (.ditor),
Yhn
Wiley
and Zone, New York.
I
b
S
S H.
I
Arc.
376
?
Reading Lint, cont'd.
S ,
Yeates, H.
1974
?
An
introduction
to quantitative aniysis in
human geography.
?
McGraw-Hill, New York*
Young, R. X.
?
IntroductorystatistiCn for
the social sciences.
McGraw-Hill, Now York
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