Background
Webster remarked that the defining feature of culture-historical archaeology was its "statements which reveal common notions about the nature of ancient cultures; about their qualities; about how they related to the material record; and thus about how archaeologists might effectively study them."
Webster noted that the second defining feature of culture-historical thought was its emphasis on classification and typologies.
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