Books by Dwight W Read

In this engaging, thought-provoking book, Dwight Read explores the fundamental scientific debate about how culture and social organization separate humans from our primate cousins.

Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories. This book examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. It offers a methodology for producing classifications that are salient to the cultural groups that produced them.