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The Empiricist Strikes Back: Reply to Binford

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard A. Gould
Richard A. Gould*
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Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
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Abstract

A reply to Lewis Binford's criticism concerning my views on archaeological inference and the relationships of such inferences to various kinds of ethnoarchaeology, with special reference to the Australian data included in Binford's critique.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , July 1985, pp. 638 - 644
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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