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Paradigms Lost—Paradigms Found?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David J. Meltzer
David J. Meltzer*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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Abstract

A brief response is given to Custer's comment on my article, "Paradigms and the nature of change in American archaeology." Custer's position contains errors of fact and interpretation, propounds a questionable view of the history of science in general (and archaeology in particular), and fails to disprove my original arguments.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , July 1981, pp. 662 - 665
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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