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Goal: main purpose of the monograph
Thomas Wynn’s early monograph Spatial Competence, 1989 (see Wynn 1989 Evolution) is a model of archaeological inferential analysis, and I give here an extensive overview of its content. This slender book is of the great significance, and it has great relevance for the central argument of CAR (see Buccellati G 2017 C A R).
I refer briefly to the significance of the work in the summary entry about Wynn 1989 ((see Wynn 1989 Evolution)) within the bibliography. Here I give an extensive set of excerpts, organized thematically, with special reference to the topics pertinent to my own central argument. The sequence is reproduced in the table below.
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GENERAL NOTIONS Methodology Developmental sequence Nature of progress Structure Bracing Typology and taxonomy About archaeology Spatial competence Spatial thinking Overall shape External perspective Symmetry Intentionality |
INTUITIVE GEOMETRIES Topological concepts 1. Proximity 2. Order pairing ordered sequence reversed sequence 3. Continuity Projective concepts straight edge cross section Euclidean concepts measurement parallel axes bilateral symmetry |
INTELLIGENCE This section forthcoming. |
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