Models, Definitions, and Stylistic Variation: Comment on Ortman

Teresa D. Hurt, Gordon F. M. Rakita, Robert D. Leonard

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Abstract

Ortman's comments concerning the evolutionary archaeology model of style in his study of the textile metaphor in Mesa Verde pottery designs are based upon a misunderstanding of the assumptions of the neutral model of style. We clarify these assumptions and explain why Ortman's study is not a test of the model.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)742-743
Number of pages2
JournalAmerican Antiquity
Volume66
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2001
Externally publishedYes

Disciplines

  • History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
  • Sociology

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