CLADISTICS, TYPOLOGY AND THE BRONZE AGE POTTERY FROM CÂRNA
CLADISTICS, TYPOLOGY AND THE BRONZE AGE POTTERY FROM CÂRNA

Summary/Abstract: In the last decades there is a growing interest for using phylogenetic methods in studies on the development of culture. Within archaeology this trend may be regarded as revival of the ideas behind the typological method from the beginning of the 20th century. In the paper I shall try to discuss the possibility of application the phylogenetic (cladistic) techniques to research on diversity of material culture. In order to do this I shall confront the assumptions of cladistics with archaeological sources by revisiting the chronology of the well-known Bronze Age cemetery at Cârna in Wallachian Plain.

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