W.C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method / R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien.

• Superior document: Classics in southeastern archaeology
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Lyman, R. Lee.
• TeilnehmendeR: O'Brien, Michael J. 1950-; McKern, W. C. 1892-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Classics in southeastern archaeology.
• Physical Description: xiii, 302 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Includes historical documents by W.C. McKern and others.

Table of Contents

• Taxonomic classification and biological taxonomy
• Developing the Midwestern Taxonomic Method, 1930-1935
• Subsequent developments, 1935-1940
• Applications, comments, and later proposals
• The Midwestern Taxonomic Method in light of biological systematics
• Culture type classification for midwestern North American archaeology / W.C. McKern (1932)
• A suggested classification of cultures / Carl E. Guthe (1932)
• Local types and the regional distribution of pottery-bearing cultures / W.C. McKern (1933)
• The problem of culture classification / W.C. McKern, Thorne Deuel, and Carl E. Guthe (1933)
• Certain culture classification problems in middle western archaeology / W.C. McKern (1934)
• Some assumptions and implications of the McKern classification system / Thorne Deuel (1937)
• Review of Rediscovering Illinois : archaeological explorations in and around Fulton County / W.C. McKern (1938)
• The McKern and related systems of classification / Thorne Deuel (1939)
• The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an aid to archaeological culture study / W.C. McKern (1939)
• Application of the Midwestern Taxonomic Method / W.C. McKern (1940)
• Taxonomy and the direct historical approach / W.C. McKern (1942)
• Regarding midwestern archaeological taxonomy / W.C. McKern (1943)
• An inaccurate description of Midwestern Taxonomy / W.C. McKern (1944).