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A study of the various ways in which field archaeologists set about making and using classifications to meet a variety of practical needs. The authors discuss how humans form concepts. They then describe and analyse in detail a specific example of an archaeological classification, and go on to consider the theoretical generalizations that can be derived from the study of actual in-use classifications.William Y. Adams is the author of 'Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality: A Dialectical Approach to Artifact Classification and Sorting', published 1991 under ISBN 9780521393348 and ISBN 0521393345.
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