Prods Oktor Skjærvø. On Videvdad Chapter 5.1-13 and its Pahlavi Commentaries

Chapter 51. Practice Guidelines

Chapter 13

With this opening sentence, Albert Spaulding introduced a now commonly used statistical procedure to archaeology called chi-square analysis. Spaulding was dissatisfied by typological procedures in common use at the time, and sought to make typology rigorous, replicable, and scientific. Most archaeologists at the time created archaeological types by putting artifacts together on a table, and the...

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

In spite of penetrating stains and brightfield optics of considerable resolution, definite limits of observation inevitably were reached in traditional cytology. Although the light microscope revealed basal bodies in the spores of watermolds, how did they anchor successfully against the forceful beating of flagella? While the best of optical glass could reveal bivalent rings in presumed meiotic...

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