First Advisor

Wayne Suttles

Term of Graduation

1975

Date of Publication

1-1-1975

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Anthropology

Department

Anthropology

Language

English

Subjects

Archaeology, Charles E. Borden, Archaeology -- Methodology, Northwest Coast of North America -- Antiquities

DOI

10.15760/etd.856

Physical Description

3, xxiv, 615 pages

Abstract

Analysis of Borden's papers, including unpublished (to 1975), to discover logic used to formulate and test hypotheses. Available data and explanatory patterns shown. Work characterized as search for Northwest Coast chronology with three periods: Early. Evidence from stratigraphy, geology, historical linguistics, ethnographies, study of spatial distribution of similar artifacts. Middle. Application of 0-14 dating to test and correct earlier hypotheses. Recent. Sequences of hypotheses to explain complex, puzzling phenomena involving many basic sciences. Papers shown to be series of retroductions, moving from puzzling phenomena to hypotheses from which the phenomena would follow as a matter of course.

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/4694

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