ANT314H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cognitive Archaeology, Lewis Binford, Processual Archaeology
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Archaeology by paradigm: an ideology, when launched, they were seen as revolutionary (replacing everything prior) How do we recognize a paradigm: by suffix. Al" archaeology ex: societal archaeology: by phrasing. An" archaeology of ---" ex: an archaeology of landscape. Processualism: new , americanist archaeology early processualists in the 1960s were mainly american, behaviouralism. Post-processualism: launched as a paradigm shift, meaning everything before is obsolete, structuralism, post-structuralism 1 990. Post-processual: epistemology how we know, and how we know we know. Particular how you go about organizing knowledge claims (i. e. , generalize to all culture, or specific cultures: gordon childe (1892 -1957) Processualist knew that social was important to humans (as well as post-prosessual) Binford 1965: archaeological systematics and the study of culture process: he changed his approach through time but never admit he was wrong about anything. What he did was that people misunderstood me , and then change it. B. f. skinner in psychology, then picked up by anthropology.
