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Diffusionism and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John Howland Rowe
John Howland Rowe*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
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Abstract

Doctrinaire diffusionism is a menace to the development of sound archaeological theory based on comparative studies; it distracts archaeologists from such studies and seeks to destroy the basis of comparison. Diffusionist arguments are defective in principle, however. The bias in the selection of data for these arguments can be illustrated by listing cultural similarities between ancient Peru and the ancient Mediterranean.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 3Part1 , January 1966 , pp. 334 - 337
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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