The scientific nature of postprocessualism

American Antiquity

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-53

  VanPool, Christine S ^a   VanPool, Todd L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2694344     Document Type: Article

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