The potential of stylistic variation in artifact to define sociocultural phenomena—these might include ethnic groups.cultures trading net-works migration routes and so forth—have both enticed and frustrated archacologitsts since the beginning of our discipline . For example,childe(1929v–vi)wrote we find certain types of remains—pots,implements burial rites house forms—consistently recurring together .such a com. Plex of regularly associated traits we shall term a cultural group or culture we assume that such a complex is the material expression of what today would be called people. This axiom of childe's has proven too simplistic and often simply untrue. It places primary emphasis on artifact style as the defining variable for cultures. Further this formula presumes that stylistic Chang automatically means cultural Chang in 1997 Kramer critiqued the assumption dating to the earlier days of our the field that pots equal people's As emberling(1999)points out the same cure of cultural symbols can remain for a long period and yet Chang in their cultural meaning while the organization of society is altering What is worse by making style the dependent variable instead of an independent