ANTH 2015 Lecture : Anth 2015 Notes 12/3/13
Document Summary
Top ten reasons why lewis binford should be considered the father of the. New archaeology: nominated for lsu chancellor"s distinguished lecture of 2001 by. Processual archaeology: study of processes of archaeology . Main goals of archaeology today: culture history: what happened where and when so basically cultural time history in archaeology, past lifeways: study of how people live/lived, culture process: interpretation of new archaeology. Took notice to the theory that culture is a system that was someone else"s idea: interrelated subsystems, economic, social and ideological systems, equilibrium: not changing, external/internal. external threat: natural disasters. Also useful for mapping sites: gis: learning how to map things and use data. Postprocessual archaeology: ian hodder"s contextual archaeology, mark leone"s critical archaeology: knowledge of the past is biased through the growth of capitalism, meg conkey"s gender archaeology: there is a white male bias in archaeology.
