W. C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12
PART I: W. C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method......Page 16
1. Introduction......Page 18
2. Taxonomic Classification and Biological Taxonomy
......Page 28
3. Developing the Midwestern Taxonomic Method, 1930–1935......Page 66
4. Subsequent Developments, 1935–1940......Page 116
5. Applications, Comments, and Later Proposals......Page 150
6. The Midwestern Taxonomic Method in Light of Biological Systematics......Page 194
PART II: Historical Documents......Page 212
7. Culture Type Classification for Midwestern North American Archaeology
......Page 214
8. A Suggested Classification of Cultures......Page 215
9. Local Types and the Regional Distribution of Pottery- Bearing Cultures......Page 219
10. The Problem of Culture Classification
......Page 223
11. Certain Culture Classification Problems in Middle Western Archaeology
......Page 229
12. Some Assumptions and Implications of the McKern Classification System
......Page 242
13. Review of Rediscovering Illinois: Archaeological Explorations in and around Fulton County......Page 248
14. The McKern and Related Systems of Classification
......Page 256
15. The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an Aid to Archaeological Culture Study......Page 265
16. Application of the Midwestern Taxonomic Method......Page 277
17. Taxonomy and the Direct Historical Approach......Page 282
18. Regarding Midwestern Archaeological Taxonomy......Page 287
19. An Inaccurate Description of Midwestern Taxonomy......Page 292
References Cited......Page 296
Index......Page 314