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A Consideration of Some Processual Designs for Archaeology as Anthropology

1970; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/278141

2325-5064

Gilbert Kushner,

Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture

Abstract In recent years a new approach in archaeology, the "processual school," has been developed. The processualists suggest that method and theory in archaeology be in various important ways altered and reoriented. A number of the school's basic axioms are defined, illustrated, and discussed. Included is a consideration of such notions as "adaptation," "system," and "explanation." It is argued that various of the components of the processualist position themselves require some modification.