Cross-cultural comparative approaches in archaeology

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-18

  Peregrine, Peter N ^a  

^a LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeological method and theory; Cross cultural research; Cultural evolution; Ethnology; History of archaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039438020     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.1     Document Type: Article

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