A Consideration of Some Processual Designs for Archaeology as Anthropology
- 1 April 1970
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 35 (2) , 125-132
- https://doi.org/10.2307/278141
Abstract
In recent years a new approach in archaeology, the "processual school," has been developed. The processualists suggest that method and theory in archaeology be in various important ways altered and reoriented. A number of the school's basic axioms are defined, illustrated, and discussed. Included is a consideration of such notions as "adaptation," "system," and "explanation." It is argued that various of the components of the processualist position themselves require some modification.Keywords
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