Processual archaeology
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processual-archaeology-172-6036891
title:
Processual archaeology
text:
Processual archaeology is a form of archaeological theory. It had its beginnings in 1958 with the work of Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, in which the pair stated that "American archaeology is anthropology, or it is nothing", a rephrasing of Frederic William Maitland's comment: "My own belief is that by and by, anthropology will have the choice between being history, and being nothing." The idea implied that the goals of archaeology were the goals of
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Theoretical paradigm in archaeology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processual_archaeology
date created:
2002-12-21T06:36:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T22:20:14Z
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