ARKY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Processual Archaeology, Lewis Binford, Radiocarbon Dating
31 Oct 2018
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Julian steward assumed that certain basic culture types would develop in similar ways under similar conditions. (really liked river valleys) Multilinear cultural evolution proceeded on many courses and at different rates, not just one universal track. Move from description to explanation why certain patterns or developments occurred. Radio-carbon dating comes out and helps get calendar dates of things. Processual archaeology: processual archaeology focuses on the cultural process and the explanation of cultural change. Hypothesis testing against competing explanations: use of scientific method. Identify universal laws of cultural change and human behaviour. Systems ecology cultures are combinations of different, interrelated components. Processual archaeology ii: lewis binford: focus on why cultures change over time, topics: environmental circumscription, population growth, energetics models, settlement pattern, use of (cid:862)(cid:373)iddle (cid:396)a(cid:374)ge theo(cid:396)y(cid:863) to a(cid:374)s(cid:449)e(cid:396) a(cid:396)(cid:272)haeologi(cid:272)al (cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s. Postprocessual archaeology: meaning culture is interactive and constructed. Archaeological typologies are constructs, not accurate representations of the archaeological record.
