A crucial characteristic of a good typology is that it must be ...

[mrsjacobs44]

A crucial characteristic of a good typology is that it must be
 
  a. subjective and ambiguous.
  b. symbolic and generalized.
  c. objective and explicit.
  d. used exclusively by the archaeologist that created it.
  e. subjective and vague.

Question 2

When classifying artifacts, types are abstractions imposed by archaeologists because
 
  a. the goal is to classify the artifacts in exactly the same way as the culture that produced them.
  b. to prevent the same artifact from being classified in a different way.
  c. the classifications serve no specific purpose.
  d. there is nothing inherent in an artifact that makes it belong to one and only one type.
  e. they are trained to identify the way artifacts are consistently assigned to specific types.

[raenoj]

Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d

[mrsjacobs44]

Thank you!

[raenoj]

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