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Manuel Gamio and Stratigraphic Excavation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard E. Adams*
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Abstract

Use of the stratigraphic technique in American archaeology would seem to have been initiated by Manuel Gamio in 1911 at Atzcapotzalco, Mexico.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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References

Gamio, Manuel 1912–13. Arqueología de Atzcapotzalco, D. F., México. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Americanists [London, 1913], pp. 180–7. London.Google Scholar
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Woodbury, R. B. 1960. Nels C. Nelson and Chronological Archaeology. American Antiquity, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 400–1. Salt Lake City.Google Scholar