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Positivism and the Collection of Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

R. G. Chenhall
R. G. Chenhall*
Affiliation:
Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas
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Abstract

The statement of Fritz and Plog that an explicit formulation of potential laws must precede the collection of data is challenged on the grounds that (1) the collection of data, from some areas at least, must be made now or it will be lost forever, and (2) relevant archaeology can be done with salvage materials, gathered without knowledge of their ultimate use.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 1971 , pp. 372 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1971

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