ANTHRO 2AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Direct Historical Approach, Oscar Montelius, Processual Archaeology
12 Feb 2018
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Terms: culture area, diffusion, direct historical approach, types, processual archaeology, conjunctive approach, explanation, scientific method, culture, middle range theory, paleo-economy, behavioral archaeology, taphonomy. Developed out of the acceptance of there being a past. Terms: chronology, relative dating, unilineal evolution, seriation, culture areas, space- time systematics, diffusionism, direct historical approach, types. 1890, swedish, integrated most of european chronology through artifact analysis, relative chronology. Focused on artifacts changing through stratigraphy and less on theories of change. Classes of artifacts changing over space and through time. Divided the bronze age into 6 phases. A temporal ordering of artifacts based on the assumption that cultural styles change over time and that the popularity of a particular style or decoration can be associated with a certain time period. Contextual -things that are found together, as in burials. Out of all of these convergences, archaeology formed as a discipline in academia, museums and agencies. Making order out of material from the past.
