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Cluster Analysis and Archaeological Classification

This paper examines some of the implications of Christenson and Read’s [1977] comments on the use of numerical taxonomic concepts in archaeological classification. While many of their comments are accurate, we feel that they have seriously misrepresented the nature of cluster analysis as a grouping technique by their association of cluster analysis with the theoretical and methodological goals of numerical taxonomy. The implications of their arguments are challenged.

Roger K. Blashfield | Mark S. Aldenderfer | M. Aldenderfer | R. Blashfield

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