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A Consideration of Some Processual Designs for Archaeology as Anthropology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gilbert Kushner
Gilbert Kushner*
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State University of New YorkBrockport, New York
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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.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 1970 , pp. 125 - 132
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1970

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