Binford, Lewis R. (1964). «A Consideration of Archaeological Research Design». American Antiquity. 29 (4): 425–441. doi:10.2307/277978. JSTOR277978. «The loss, breakage, and abandonment of implements and facilities at different locations, where groups of variable structure performed different tasks, leaves a "fossil" record of the actual operation of an extinct society.»
Watson, Patty Jo; LeBlanc, Steven A.; Redman, Charles L. (1971). Explanation in Archeology: An Explicitly Scientific Approach. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. էջեր 22. «Although the humans themselves are long dead, their patterned behavior can be investigated by the hypothetico-deductive method of science because archaeological remains and their spatial interrelationships are empirically observable records of that patterning.»
Renfrew, Colin (1972). The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B.C. London: Methuen. էջ 441. «[...] the durable objects constituting the archaeological record pottery, metal, obsidian, emery offer only a small part of the possible range of commodities traded. Much evidence for early trade has perished slaves, wine, wood, hides, opium, lichens even [...] make up a considerable repertoire of traded materials which are only rarely recorded archaeologically. The range and volume of trade could thus have been far greater than the record now documents.»
Clarke, David (1973). «Archaeology: the loss of innocence». Antiquity. 47 (185): 16. doi:10.1017/S0003598X0003461X. ISSN1745-1744. «[...] hominid activities, social patterns, and environmental factors, one with another and with the sample and traces which were at the time deposited in the archaeological record.»
Binford, Lewis R. (1964). «A Consideration of Archaeological Research Design». American Antiquity. 29 (4): 425–441. doi:10.2307/277978. JSTOR277978. «The loss, breakage, and abandonment of implements and facilities at different locations, where groups of variable structure performed different tasks, leaves a "fossil" record of the actual operation of an extinct society.»
Binford, Lewis R. (1964). «A Consideration of Archaeological Research Design». American Antiquity. 29 (4): 425–441. doi:10.2307/277978. JSTOR277978. «The loss, breakage, and abandonment of implements and facilities at different locations, where groups of variable structure performed different tasks, leaves a "fossil" record of the actual operation of an extinct society.»
Clarke, David (1973). «Archaeology: the loss of innocence». Antiquity. 47 (185): 16. doi:10.1017/S0003598X0003461X. ISSN1745-1744. «[...] hominid activities, social patterns, and environmental factors, one with another and with the sample and traces which were at the time deposited in the archaeological record.»
