ANTH 2015 Study Guide - Late Show Top Ten List, Lewis Binford, Processual Archaeology
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Top 10 reasons why lewis binford should be considered the father of the new. Lewis binford: 1960s, series of papers that transformed archaeology. Objective of new archeology: search for universal laws that govern cultural behavior and cultural change, very generalized, reaction to descriptive anthropology, no longer about artifacts, but culture and people. Archeology is anthropology lewis binford: people disagreed; new departments took the biological anthropologists with them, tried to separate cultural anthropology from biological. Processual archaeology: study of processes of cultural change. Main goals of archeology today: culture history putting artifacts in a time and place, past lifeways using dioramas; showed how people lived, culture process how people changed. Statistics are no substitute for thought albert spaulding: problem orientated research, deductive method of hypothesis testing, have an idea, state what you are looking for. Inductive make observations, gather data, come up with a generalization. Inductive was a way of the past: archaeological record is complete.
