W.C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method
By: R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien.
Contributors: O'Brien, Michael J. 1950-; McKern, W. C. 1892-
Series: Classics in southeastern archaeology
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: McKern, W. C. 1892-; Indians of North America -- Middle West -- Antiquities -- Classification.; Archaeology -- Middle West -- Methodology.; Archaeology -- United States -- History.; Middle West -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index.
Includes historical documents by W.C. McKern and others.
Table of contents: title: Taxonomic classification and biological taxonomy; title: Developing the Midwestern Taxonomic Method, 1930-1935; title: Subsequent developments, 1935-1940; title: Applications, comments, and later proposals; title: The Midwestern Taxonomic Method in light of biological systematics; title: Culture type classification for midwestern North American archaeology / W.C. McKern (1932); title: A suggested classification of cultures / Carl E. Guthe (1932); title: Local types and the regional distribution of pottery-bearing cultures / W.C. McKern (1933); title: The problem of culture classification / W.C. McKern, Thorne Deuel, and Carl E. Guthe (1933); title: Certain culture classification problems in middle western archaeology / W.C. McKern (1934); title: Some assumptions and implications of the McKern classification system / Thorne Deuel (1937); title: Review of Rediscovering Illinois : archaeological explorations in and around Fulton County / W.C. McKern (1938); title: The McKern and related systems of classification / Thorne Deuel (1939); title: The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an aid to archaeological culture study / W.C. McKern (1939); title: Application of the Midwestern Taxonomic Method / W.C. McKern (1940); title: Taxonomy and the direct historical approach / W.C. McKern (1942); title: Regarding midwestern archaeological taxonomy / W.C. McKern (1943); title: An inaccurate description of Midwestern Taxonomy / W.C. McKern (1944).