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Author Lyman, R. Lee.

Title W.C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method / R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) : illustrations
Series Classics in southeastern archaeology
Classics in southeastern archaeology.
Contents Taxonomic classification and biological taxonomy -- Developing the Midwestern Taxonomic Method, 1930-1935 -- Subsequent developments, 1935-1940 -- Applications, comments, and later proposals -- The Midwestern Taxonomic Method in light of biological systematics -- Culture type classification for midwestern North American archaeology / W.C. McKern (1932) -- A suggested classification of cultures / Carl E. Guthe (1932) -- Local types and the regional distribution of pottery-bearing cultures / W.C. McKern (1933) -- The problem of culture classification / W.C. McKern, Thorne Deuel, and Carl E. Guthe (1933) -- Certain culture classification problems in middle western archaeology / W.C. McKern (1934) -- Some assumptions and implications of the McKern classification system / Thorne Deuel (1937) -- Review of Rediscovering Illinois : archaeological explorations in and around Fulton County / W.C. McKern (1938) -- The McKern and related systems of classification / Thorne Deuel (1939) -- The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an aid to archaeological culture study / W.C. McKern (1939) -- Application of the Midwestern Taxonomic Method / W.C. McKern (1940) -- Taxonomy and the direct historical approach / W.C. McKern (1942) -- Regarding midwestern archaeological taxonomy / W.C. McKern (1943) -- An inaccurate description of Midwestern Taxonomy / W.C. McKern (1944)
Summary This book explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system. By the early 20th century, North American archaeologists had found evidence of a plethora of prehistoric cultures displaying disparate geographic and chronological distributions. But there were no standards or algorithms for specifying when a culture was distinct or identical to another in a nearby or distant region. Will Carleton McKern of the Milwaukee Public Mu
Notes Includes historical documents by W.C. McKern and others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-298) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton), 1892-1988
SUBJECT McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton), 1892-1988 fast
Subject Indians of North America -- Middle West -- Antiquities -- Classification
Archaeology -- Middle West -- Methodology
Archaeology -- United States -- History
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Antiquities
Archaeology
Archaeology -- Methodology
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
SUBJECT Middle West -- Antiquities
Subject Middle West
United States
Genre/Form Classification
History
Form Electronic book
Author O'Brien, Michael J. (Michael John), 1950-
McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton), 1892-1988
LC no. 2002007554
ISBN 9780817382032
0817382038