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INTRODUCTION. Histories of archaeology are often fundamentally distinct from each other, in their objectives, methodologies, contexts, and protagonists.
Classically defined, archaeology is the study of material remains from past human cultures. More broadly, and more recently, archaeologists J. Jefferson Reid and Michael Brian Schiffer have defined archaeology as the study of the relationship between human behavior and material culture in all times and all places.
This article examines the paradigmatic and methodological history of technological research in Anglo-American and European archaeology. It provides examples of the study of European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic technologies and highlights particular topics and nationalistic research programmes that have been and remain among the most ...
THEORY AND METHOD IN ARCHAEOLOGY 3 terning in archaeological data (Doran and Hodson, 1975; Orton, 1980; Richards and Ryan, 1985). Two particular fields of interpretative theory can be briefly mentioned here: theories of artefact exchange and prehistoric exchange networks; and theories of the relation of mortuary
EDWARD HIGGINBOTHAM. This paper discusses the development of excavation techniques in England and their application to historical archaeology in Australia.
4 Ιουν 2019 · We evaluate three case studies drawn from the literature to illustrate how contemporary anthropological archaeology can aid in operationalizing our observations and interpretations of cultural evolution processes at different scales in both the ethnographic present and the archaeological past.
Technological studies are concerned with many of the big questions of archaeology: Who made the objects we find? What materials did ancient people use? Where did they obtain their raw materials, and how did they craft pottery, stone tools, buildings, clothing, and other useful items?
