ANT 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lewis Binford, Processual Archaeology, Mousterian
23 Oct 2016
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The nature of the archaeological record and research goals. Culture-historical archaeology: the record is incomplete, we need to build sequences of cultures for the whole world. Processual archaeology: the record is as complete as it needs to be in order to formulate testable hypotheses. progressive evolution: bordes vs. binford, francois bordes (1919-1991, bordes, french, naturalist, during 1950s he excavated many caves in southern. France, recovering mousterian stone tool assemblages made by neandertals: after ww2 he went to school, when he conducted experiments, found that there many procedures to get the exact same tool, most caves have more than one occupation level. In order to compare the assemblages, bordes developed a detailed typology of middle paleolithic stone tools. In order to display the relative frequencies of different tool types, Neandertal tribes whose occupations of the french caves varied randomly over time: bordes invited many foreign students to join his excavations. Sally, who was participating in his excavations, brought her husband, lewis.
