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Archaeological data, subcultures and social dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Keith J. Matthews
Keith J. Matthews*
Affiliation:
Chester Archaeology, Grosvenor Museum, 27 Grosvenor Street, Chester CH1 2DD, England
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Abstract

The archaeological record is dominated by the repeated object and the repeated event, so we search for patterns that explain the regular in general terms. But human societies are not like that; the mass is actually made up of individuals, and the engine of change more often at the margin than at the centre.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 264 , September 1995, pp. 586 - 594
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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