The Utility of Mathematical Constructs in Building Archaeological Theory
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In his book, Analytical Archaeology, Clarke (1968:512-513) noted three ways in which mathematical concepts are relevant to what he calls archaeological ideology: "(i) The need for entitation and quantification ... using ... descriptive statistics"; "(ii) The need to handle relationship concepts ... using analytical inductive statistics"; "(iii) The need to handle the regularities in complex data in terms of isomorphic systems of symbols arranged in axiomatic schemes, models, or calculi"
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