ANT 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ian Hodder, Processual Archaeology, Pokot People
23 Oct 2016
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Post- processual archaeology: ian hodder"s critique, interpretive archaeology, agenda archaeology. Processual archaeology became popular during the 1960s, but by the 1980s there were some criticism/shortcomings. Weren"t learning about social organization, symbols, etc processual was good at solving simple problems, but not big ones. Although it dealt well with basic areas of human behavior such as settlement patterns, subsistence, technology, it did not examine more complex areas such as symbolism and behavior. Began his career researching iron age settlement patterns in britain. Actualistic research by hodder and others suggested that the difficulties that. Processual archaeologists would face in dealing with symbols and politics were considerable. The meanings of symbols can be ambiguous, even to the people who use them. Interpretations of political behavior can be highly subjective (observer dependent) Processual archaeologists prided themselves as being objective scientists, but interpreting symbolic and political artifacts is a highly subjective process.
