processual archaeology

In doing so they forged the theoretical school of processual archaeology.

(In time, this view gave rise to the term processual archaeology).

The theoretical frame at the heart of processual archaeology is cultural evolutionism.

The early experiences gave Morse the ability to conform to the processual archaeology of the 1960s and after.

Watson is a proponent of processual archaeology and has contributed greatly to that approach.

Such approaches were the intent of processual archaeology.

April 11 - Lewis Binford, known for his development of processual archaeology.

Post-processualist critics consider the main weaknesses of processual archaeology to be:

These ideas coincided nicely with processual archaeology's call for a more scientific, analytic methodology.

The normative model was the dominant model in archaeological theory up to the rise of processual archaeology.

Macroevolution in human prehistory: Evolutionary theory and processual archaeology.

Stanley South is an American archaeologist who was a major proponent of the processual archaeology movement.

Hence came the name "processual archaeology".

Zooarchaeological specialists started to come about partly because of a new approach to archaeology known as "processual archaeology."

Post-processual theory was a critique of processual archaeology sometimes lumped by critics with postmodernism.

Culture history uses inductive reasoning unlike its main rival, processual archaeology which stresses the importance of the hypothetico-deduction method.

Many non-fiction authors have ignored the scientific methods of processual archaeology, or the specific critiques of it contained in post-processualism.

Processual archaeology (New Archaeology)

As a leading advocate of the "New Archaeology" movement of the 1960s, he proposed a number of ideas that became central to processual archaeology.

Colin Renfrew, a proponent of the new processual archaeology, observed in 1987 that it focuses attention on "the underlying historical processes which are at the root of change".

The theoretical schools of thought in archaeology starting with the processual archaeology known as New archaeology to the post processual, contextual and the cognitive archaeology.

I would like to see this done, and have argued that it can be done, in the mainstream of the processual archaeology I was speaking of, with an explicit methodology.

Commencing with the processual archaeology movement in the 1960s, some scholars began to assert that "there was no need to explain culture change exclusively in terms of migration and population replacement".

They proposed a "New Archaeology", which would be more "scientific" and "anthropological", with hypothesis testing and the scientific method very important parts of what became known as processual archaeology.

Systems Theory also eventually went on to show that predictions that a high amount of cultural regularities would be found were certainly overly optimistic during the early stages of Processual archaeology.