![]() ![]() The book called for a separation from geological axioms and the creation of a distinct science of “Archaeological Stratigraphy,” since archaeological stratification is fundamentally different from that occurring in nature. Edward Harris, the Harris Matrix was first published in the journal, World Archaeology, in 1975 and was followed by the first edition of the seminal work, Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy, in 1979. ![]() As Professor Gavin Lucas suggested in his 2001 book, Critical Approaches to Fieldwork, the Harris Matrix and its associated concepts changed the paradigm of archaeological stratigraphy from a reliance on one-dimensional physical sections, or profiles, to the four dimensions (three physical ones of depth and area, plus relative time) of the stratigraphic sequence. ![]()
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