AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Processual Archaeology, Lewis Binford, Franz Boas
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Archeology 101 (note # 4) september 22, 2015. Australian v. gordon childe (1892-1957) was a leading thinking and writer about. He was concerned with the identification of cultures based on their material remains & their age. In the early part of the 20th century additional ingredients were introduced that allowed for a new archaeology. The ecological approach is concerned with the interactions between the environment, biology and culture. Franz boas (1858-1942) american biological anthropologist, julian steward (1902-1972) american cultural anthropologist, and grahame clark (1907-1995) Science and technology are linked; following wwii a number of new technologies made themselves available to archaeology. In the 1960"s, the processual archaeology movement is lead by american lewis. Processual approach used to explore origins" questions; origins of agriculture, humankind . Today archaeology takes a variety of forms and approaches many archaeologies: post-processual approach, post modern thought of 1980"s and 1990"s viewed archaeology as subjective rather than objective.
