general applicability to this idea and distributed it into analysis of other concepts.

In archaeology in the West, some scholars (such as J.O. Brew and James A. Ford in the United States and mats p. malmer in Sweden) advanced a concept according to which grouping of material and inferences were fully dependent on the investigator’s will and arbitrariness—on the definitions, methods, and criteria chosen by the investigator. In the last decades of the Soviet regime, this concept also appeared in archaeology, although sporadically (in Paleolithic studies in the work of Gennady Grigoryev). Recently, this has also developed into a broader concept (in general theory in the works of Evgeny Kolpakov).

Leo Klejn

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