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Cluster Analysis and Archaeological Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Mark S. Aldenderfer  and
Roger K. Blashfield
Mark S. Aldenderfer
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 63121
Roger K. Blashfield
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
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Abstract

This paper examines some of the implications of Christenson and Read’s [1977] comments on the use of numerical taxonomic concepts in archaeological classification. While many of their comments are accurate, we feel that they have seriously misrepresented the nature of cluster analysis as a grouping technique by their association of cluster analysis with the theoretical and methodological goals of numerical taxonomy. The implications of their arguments are challenged.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1978 , pp. 502 - 505
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1978

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