ANTHRO 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Processual Archaeology, Marvin Harris, Lewis Binford
6 Mar 2019
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Lecture: a larger influence in cultural anthropology caused a major is archaeology. Sacred cow - marvin harris, required reading: cultural traits or behavior exists to satisfy basic needs . The new or processual archaeology: a paradigm shift (thomas kuhn, the goal to explain not to assume the past, to apply the scientific method . Materialism - archaeology was no longer limited to understanding material objects. Logical positivism only statements verifiable through empirical observation are cognitively verifiable hypothesis; what would you expect to find to verify hypothesis a and only hypothesis a to discriminate or it is not effective. Test implications (if-then statements; propositions; predictions) designed to isolate. Theory (temporarily the best, isolated hypothesis which explains event) A research design: knowledge , recognition of a problem induction, bridging argument, hypothesis test implications excavation deduction theory. Hypotheses are tested against, and constrained by, evidence. This is historical in the sense that archaeologists cannot perform experiments.
