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A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Artifact Loss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jacqueline R. Fehon  and
Sandra C. Scholtz
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Abstract

Accurate interpretation of archaeological remains requires the explication of cultural formation processes, the activities responsible for forming the archaeological record. Loss is one of several processes by which materials may be transformed from systemic context to archeological context. Conditional probability theory provides a basis for conceptualizing how loss operates as an S-A process. Laws of loss, expressed as c-transforms, can be formulated to relate the systemic context event, loss, to variability in the archaeological record.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 1978 , pp. 271 - 273
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1978

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