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David,
I do not believe that Taylor actually used the expression in "A Study of
Archaeology", although the main theme of the book was that archaeologists
should be formulating models of cultural processes. In fact he castigated a
bunch of America's leading archaeologists of the day because they had been
producing only descriptive results (definitions of artifact types, phases,
etc.), even though their academic training was in cultural anthropology.
But Taylor clearly planted the seeds that flourished in W&P and burst forth
in full bloom under the ministrations of Binford and other adherents of the
New Archaeology movement.
Taylor, in A Study of Archaeology, advocated what he called the "conjunctive
approach", which he hyped as a method for doing real anthropology with
archaeological data, but he did not explain just what the conjunctive
approach was or how one could apply it. He repeatedly said that it would
all be explicated fully in a report that he would one day publish, based on
his fieldwork in northern Mexico in the 1930s. Despite working for decades
on the report it never was forthcoming. And Taylor now is dead.
ebj
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David
Babson
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:52 PM
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Subject: Re: Being a pedant (anthropology or nuttin')
Didn't Walter Taylor first say "Archaeology is Anthropology, or
nothing," or words to that effect, in his "A Study of Archaeology,"
1948?
D. Babson.
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