Ref ID:	25224
Ref Type:	Book Section in a Series
Authors:	Kehoe, Alice B.
Title:	Points and Lines
Date:	1990
Source:	Powers of Observation: Alternative Views in Archeology
Publisher:	American Anthropological Association
Abstract:	“Social convention,” the application of standard terminology to phenomena, is highly influential in science, including archeology. I examine the application of the term “point” to stone and bone objects recovered from archeological sites. I show how “established social convention” has overridden other foundations for signification. Conventional terminology hid the presence of functional classes of artifacts and the activities they evidence. Expectations derived from strong ethnographic analogies have been systematically excluded from examination by these conventions.
Identifier:	0-913167-42-8
Date Created:	7/23/2019
Editors:	Nelson, Sarah M. Kehoe, Alice B.
Number:	2
Page Start:	23
Page End:	38
Series Editor:	Clark, G. A.
Series Title:	Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association