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CLARKE,

David L., ed. (1972):

Archaeology. London:

Models in

Methuen

vistas,

models to assist in the understanding matters

of

rural geographer

no fewer than 11 of

for his invested effort

for arresting classroom usage. As it is said

reading and thinking

about stereophonic

The adoption

sound systems that and taste,

methods

I. R. HODDER’s

the study of Romano-British

in geography

via the compendium and HAGGETT

Models in Geography

in 1967.

academic world concerned

assembled

Now the

with the study

of man’s past has been presented another,

monster-sized

volume

one can dip for information,

professional

“Settlement

has assembled the con-

of this well-produced

the pages

book, and the results

beckon one to look into any of the 26 chapters.

As an over-arching

field of contemporary compilation

as there are authors,

must always remember additional presented

such a

will provide almost as many

viewpoints

and one

that there are many

persuasions which are not rewithin

its pages. The editor has

taken upon himself the demanding doubt enjoyable

task of providing

mary statement

which is offered

chapter entitled contemporary

“Models

archaeology”

revolution explored

“The methodological rary archaeology:

in his in

The impact of

by f. N. HILL

in

For the

struggle within

these two

that discipline

know so well in our

own. When taken in context series of thoughtful Antiquity,

in the

one can come to a re-

asonably full appreciation developmental

with a current

essays appearing

of the notable

stresses and strains within a

sister discipline.

The rest of the chapters within are concerned archaeology

as illustrated

persuasion or by example hypothesis

this volume

with the usage of models in -

formulation,

-

by logic of to improve

research design,

ecological systems understanding, clarifications

typological

and analysis of excavation

results. The examples

a discipline

with although contact

used and the literature

Wirtschafts-

178 pp., 5 figs., 24 tables.

Arbeiten.

Friedrich-Alexander-Universitlt.

a

and of studies”.

of viewpoints

of the state, Aristotle

is reported

listed the weaver, the farmer, of economic

as well as the outsider

the constructor

Early writers on the location

activity,

E. M. HOOVER,

such as A. WEBER

used the leather

field.

and

industry

for their case studies. KLEEKAMPER

was

born into this classic branch of economic geography,

being a leather mer-

his father

chant. The best part of the book is the second half where among other things the author discusses the world market materials

from a technical

for leather raw point of view.

and Cattle

such as this volume cultivating

familiarity

one is himself not in daily

with the field of archaeology.

parallels of “new thought”

reflected

R. P. CHANEY

inquiry

“Scientific

models of sociosultural an epilogue”

The

attempting

and horses and pigs

each some 4 percent.

Raw hides are always

when animals are slaughtered. other things being

equal, provide the best hides. Slaughtering

to keep abreast of the con-

made by geographers to a sister can instill a sense of pride in what

our discipline

sheep

and goats 20 percent,

Large slaughterhou~s,

and

strike a resonant chord within

the geographer

more than two thirds of the

of the leather industry,

a by-product

in

data patterning:

of his own field. A recognition

provide

raw material

has been able to offer others,

is

here being done by experts who are under instructions

to handle the hide in a way that

is most profitable

to the company.

But the

value of the hide may have been lowered many other reasons even before slaughterhouse.

for

it enters the

Brands, insects, barbed wire,

and at the same time a type of reassurance

and other causes may be listed. The hump of

can arise out of a realization

the zebu cattle lowers the value of a hide

that parallel

occuring within

the preserve of a closely-

related field which also emphasizes In the words of Editor

regarding disciplinary uncomfortable

change is directionless

is an

and that the changes progress

are little

more than a succession of contemporary mythologies.

for histological

reasons would

have been of good quality.

human

change, “There

more exact knowledge

that otherwise

CLARKE

suspicion that much of this

we may wish to see as cumulative towards

are

If there is some justice in this

The survey of the distribution the world,

of animals in

mostly verbal and with some

simple maps, is less impressive. formation

sources, such as the Oxford of the World. The statement industry

Better

of Australia

Economic

is limited

to the coastal

areas of the east and the southeast

explicit

in point. Oxford

and testing of archaeo-

Atlas

that the cattle

view, then the cause is clear - only the construction

in-

can be had from easily available

is a case

shows a cattle distribution

logical models can provide the progressive

that makes sense of the large postwar

cycle by means of which fresh information

ments in cattle roads in the vast interior

is gained, theory

the north; KLEEKAMPER

cumulative

is accumulated

knowledge

within

and the

the discipline

thought

of the location

slaughterhouses.

of the Australian

make us suspicious of some economic

ing, academic

in the interior.

understand

our own of geography

have the wit to interpret offered us.

if we

In the north

M. NEWCOMB,

be cattle raising.

the reflections

Aarhus

G. ALEXANDERSSON,

activity

this turns out to

that Robert

of

The long rail lines should

expanded”. A mirroring of this search for constructive development within an adjoinfield may help us better to

invest-

may just have

an insight into curwork within

pillars

to have

cited in passing can give the archaeologist rent, non-traditional

13 of

und Sozialgeogr.

focused upon a growing edge

geography.

can set the scene regarding

which we geographers

within

England:

models“

searches for new concepts and methods

debate in contempogeographer,

An accessible collection examples

tributions discipline

and of the “new

a model”,

archaeology-orients contributions

journal

a sum-

upon the existing field of

study is further

the parallel

and no

and paradigms

archaeology”.

the quantitative

and J. HARRISS

in medieval

represents is well worth

view of the

archaeology,

model

type emerges from

study based on locational

of 28 colleagues within

Niirnberger

and the tanner.

and land use in the prehistory

E. M. JOPE “Models

tributions

models and settlement”,

and early history of southern

stimulation

der Welt mit Leder. Vol.

When asked about the most important

in

“A territorial

a reading of A. ELLlSON

with

into which

and refreshment. David CLARKE

geographical

“Locational

or in M. R. JARMAN’s

profitable,

und der

Versorgung

Niirnberg:

for archaeology: a behavioural and geographical approach”. Cross-fertilization of a

in their

Hauteund

ihrer Eneugung

in

for spatial analysis is evident

devices received relatively

early publicity

Heinz (1970):

Felle. Grundlagen

about their contents.

of recognized

so can it also be said about models. These

by CHORLEY

In the estima

the 26 chapters will repay the historical,

and models suitable

there is one for every pocketbook

in search of

borrowings?

tion of this reviewer,

KLEEKAMPER,

interest to the geo-

to the practitioner

interdisciplinary

in models

designed to provide comprehensive complicated

what is there in this collection

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& Co. Ltd. f 16,-.

One finds himself awash today

However,

which is of more direct

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