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Multistage Fieldwork and Analytical Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles L. Redman
Charles L. Redman*
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Department of Anthropology, New York University
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Abstract

In an effort to operationalize recent advances in archaeological theory and technique, this paper presents a systematic organizational strategy for field investigations and artifact analysis. Four general principles are suggested that lead to productive archaeological research designs: the explicit combination of inductive and deductive reasoning, the utilization of programmatic and analytical feedback, the employment of probability sampling in a multistage framework, and the formulation of analytical techniques appropriate to assumptions underlying the research and to the hypotheses being tested. These principles and associated statistical methods are discussed as they have been applied to the investigation and analysis of the material from the eighth millennium early farming village of Çayönü in southeastern Turkey.

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American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 61 - 79
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1973

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