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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Post-processual_archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Postprocessual archaeology is a form of archaeological theory which is related to the broader devleopment of postmodernism during the 1980s.
		Processual archaeologists had, if not a single theoretical position to unify them, then at least a common aspiration that drove them: the construction of a scientific and comparative archaeology.
		Conversely, Postprocessual archaeologies juxtaposed Neo-Marxism, feminist archaeology, cognitive archaeology and contextual archaeology.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Post-processual_archaeology (820 words)

	Processual archaeology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Processual archaeology is a form of archaeological theory which arguably had its genesis in 1958 with Willey and Phillips work, Method and Theory in American Archeology when the pair stated that "American archeology is anthropology or it is nothing" (Willey and Phillips, 1958:2).
		Conversely this new phase in archaeology claimed that, with the rigorous use of the scientific method it was possible to get past the limitations of the archaeological record and begin to learn something about how the people who used the artifacts actually lived.
		The theoretical context that is at the heart of Processual archaeology is cultural evolutionism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Processual_archaeology (851 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archaeology
		Processual archaeologists think of human cultures as systems that interact with their surrounding ecosystems—interdependent systems of plants, animals, landscapes, and the atmosphere (see Ecology: Ecosytems).
		To processual archaeologists, major cultural developments, such as the origins of agriculture and civilization, are highly complicated sequences of events that involve a series of interacting and constantly changing factors.
		Post-processual archaeology’s focus on the lives of small, specific groups of people—especially those not well documented in historical records—relies on both meticulous excavation and careful analysis of often seemingly insignificant artifacts.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572159_9/Archaeology.html (1622 words)

	Study Questions for Week 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Processual archaeology, also known as settlement-subsistence archaeology or the new archaeology, arose in the 1960s as a reaction against the traditional liberal-humanist approach to archaeology.
		A liberal-humanist approach [within the context of archaeology] may be characterized as the seeking of a constant and fixed [timeless] "human nature" through archaeology by filling out the picture of the past provided by literary texts; it was an attempt to provide a culture-history.
		Cognitive and post-processual archaeology arose in the 1970s as a reaction against processual archaeology, which the cognitive and post-processual followers felt was flawed in scientific, philosophical and/or ideological terms.
	www.colleges.org /~turkey/assignments/week2.html (525 words)

	Ian Bapty and Tim Yates. Archaeology and Post-Structuralism
		Archaeology was to be juxtaposed to the 'history of ideas or science', while aiming 'to uncover the regularity of a discursive practice, the basis upon which theory and knowledge become possible' (Foucault 1977c, 44).
		The status of archaeology as a kind of anti-history was always problematic however, founded on a contradiction increasingly evident as Foucault extended his archaeological studies to medicine, linguistics, economics and the natural sciences (Foucault 1974; 1975).
		Archaeology, as the study of material culture is, in a sense, now moved to centre stage, since there can be no culture that is not material culture, which is not an effect of textuality.
	archaeology.kiev.ua /meta/bapty_yates.html (10539 words)

	Post-processual archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Postprocessualism, as a movement in archaeology, is a movement only in the loosest sense of the word.
		As a group, they are only unified by their critique of Processualism, which they consider a positivist outlook on culture.
		Postproccessualism is not popular in America, where Processualism was born and continues to be the main focus of archaeology.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/post_processual_archaeology (929 words)

	Shop Fresh : Article 'Archaeology' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Archaeology or archýology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of cultural and environmental data, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.
		The goals of archaeology are to document and explain the origins and development of human culture, culture history, cultural evolution, and human behaviour and ecology.
		Archaeology is an approach to understanding lost cultures and the mute aspects of human history, without a cut-off date: in England, archaeologists have uncovered the long-lost layouts of medieval villages abandoned after the crises of the 14th century and the equally lost layouts of 17th century parterre gardens swept away by a change in fashion.
	www.shop-fresh.net /DisplayArticle32744.html (1638 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Archaeological_culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By using the term "culture", archeologists indicate that these patterns of assemblages are thought to be indicative of the wider behaviour of a particular society (though see the theories of processual archaeology and post-processual archaeology).
		Cultures are the basic units of Prehistoric archaeology and were first fully explored by Vere Gordon Childe in the late 1920s.
		The Culture History approach to archaeology is largely reliant on this rigid concept of material culture and human beings being closely connected.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Archaeological_culture (735 words)

	yoffee
		This volume is an attempt to name and explore various schools of current thought (post 1950) as against the eras in which they were produced and the issues and problems that shaped these schools.
		Post -processual archaeologists are desperate for a theory to call their own, and wishing to repudiate material culture as the primum mobile, choose behavioral explanations for culture, often choosing to reference biologists and anthropologists in unlinked unorganized ways.
		Kohl argues that the critical examination of post-processual archaeology uncovers just what a critical examination of processual archaeology would uncover: an academic system which rewards those who repudiate past work, and a blinker-minded approach to the problems that a site poses, or could pose.
	www.lehigh.edu /~cmp8/worksinprogress/summary/yoffee.html (2120 words)

	The Prehistoric Society - Book Review
		He eschews the positivism and ecological determinism of processual archaeology, as well as the extreme relativism and idealism, which he attributes to post-processual archaeology.
		For instance, processual archaeology, he suggests, is more suited to studying subsistence strategies and settlement patterns, whereas post-processual hermeneutic approaches are more relevant to studying symbolism, ideology or religion.
		Furthermore, he is at pains to emphasise that, in his opinion, some aspects of human societies, notably in the domain of culture and meaning, are beyond the reach of archaeological interpretation in the absence of written records.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /prehistoric/reviews/04_09_trigger.htm (725 words)

	Postprocessual archaeology
		His current and most notable application of interpretive archaeology is the long-term project at the prehistoric site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey.
		This was a left-wing response to the state of British archaeology after 17 years of Conservative government.
		This politicisation of archaeology was made possible by the stance of Shanks and Tilley that archaeology was inherently political and part of the modern world.
	www.gla.ac.uk /archaeology/resources/theory/postprocessual.html (401 words)

	Wlodzimierz Raczkowski
		From the point of view of archaeology this relationship is of paramount importance since it is related to the ‘archaeologist context’ and the influence on the created narratives about the past and their social consequences.
		Academic archaeology imposes general knowledge of the past, verifies the usefulness of methods, has a wider scientific spectrum at its disposal, constitutes the ‘ultimate’ criterion of truth and has vast institutional backup.
		Aerial archaeology must take stand on issues which post-processual archaeology is focused on - the question of a picture being a text, the language of aerial archaeology, the problems of power or phenomenological concept of landscape.
	www.muzarp.poznan.pl /archweb/archweb_eng/wr_poi.htm (2717 words)

	Reading the Past - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The mainstream archaeology of the seventies, ‘processual archaeology’, modelled itself on the natural sciences.
		It has been challenged in recent years by a ‘post-processual’ archaeology which draws upon the wider perspectives of history and social anthropology, insisting that account must be taken of the context and meaning of behaviour, and that the ideological uses of archaeology be recognized by practitioners.
		Post-processual archaeology is socially engaged and multivocal, since if material remains may be treated in some ways as texts, they lend themselves to divergent readings.
	www.cambridge.org /aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521401429 (300 words)

	Chippindale-1993-Ambition... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Post-processual archaeology itself is a reflection, in our own little discipline, of the larger post-modern movement that has so influenced academics and intellectuals in the 1980s; the modern movement in archaeology itself seems to have been provided, in large measure, by the American school of the New Archaeology, and by contemporary work in Britain.
		In this way, archaeology is asked — once more — to subordinate itself to an imagined ideal which is not a general theory of archaeology at all, but a particular theory developed with diligence and skill at a particular time to address alien questions that have vanishingly little to with those that archaeology addresses.
		Archaeology is both required to develop ways of dealing with time that suit its special considerations and enabled to offer its special knowledge of time to other disciplines.
	www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /Projects/Chip/Chip201.htm (7010 words)

	A Bone to Pick (interview with P. Halstead)
		Cognitive archaeology was developing in isolation from whatever else was going on in the Cambridge department, which I think was actually very bad, in the sense that there was very little dialogue going on.
		Basically, instead of having New Archaeology, of which cognitive archaeology is a logical branch, you have processual archaeology which is passé, like 'Old' Archaeology, and you have post-processual archaeology.
		Renfrew's skill was to be the bête noire of the New Archaeology but to maintain social ties to these patrons in the old generation, which is of course very different from the Binford strategy of posing as a revolutionary and debunking Jimmy Griffin and those who went before.
	www.shef.ac.uk /assem/4/4halst8.html (1947 words)

	Quiz 2 preparation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Know the names of some of the more important sites in historical archaeology, and be able to explain why they were important.
		Know the difference between "processual" and "post-processual" approaches, and the way that both approaches look at science, humanism, and social theory.
		Know the uses of artifacts in historical archaeology, and the various approaches that historical archaeologists use when dealing with them.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /anthro/SCP50/quiz_2.htm (177 words)

	The struggle for theoretical correctness in Swedish archaeology
		Traditional archaeology favoured wars and migrations; processual archaeology, technological advancement and environmental change; and post-processual archaeology, social strategies and material symbols.
		One group within post-processual archaeology stresses that material culture may be as tendentious and propagandistic as historical sources, which prompts some researchers to read the record "backwards", as the antithesis of past realities.
		The positivistic emphasis on documentation standards that I advocate was taken to extremes in the heyday of processual archaeology in the 60s and 70s.
	www.algonet.se /~arador/theor_correct_en.html (2672 words)

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		Archaeologies of Memory, edited by Ruth Van Dyke and Susan Alcock (2003), examines from a wide range of historical perspectives how the physical remains of the past were interpreted and used in societies that are now studied by archaeologists.
		Tarlow, Sarah 1999 Bereavement and Commemoration: An Archaeology of Mortality.
		Morris, I. The archaeology of ancestors: The Saxe/Goldstein hypothesis revisited.
	upload.mcgill.ca /anthropology/anth403.doc (4074 words)

	Archaeological Methods, Theory, and Practice: An Overview of Theory
		The emphasis is on processual and post-processual approaches.
		(Note that the intellectual history of archaeology is taught as a separate course at Penn State; it is taken by most archaeology concentrators.
		The debate can be placed within the larger context of the “science wars” as well as the larger historical context of anthropology, with its persistent debates over evolutionary or comparative versus historical approaches, or emphases on studying meaning versus behavior.
	www.indiana.edu /~arch/saa/matrix/amtp/amtp_mod04.html (282 words)

	Le laboratoire
		Colloquium I : The debate on function and meaning in prehistoric archaeology : processual versus post processual archaeology in the 90s.
		Colloquium IX : The study of human behaviour in relation to fire in archaeology: new data and methodologies for understanding prehistoric fire structures.
		Post pleistocene adaptations in Arabia and early maritime trade in the Indian Ocean.
	www.cg06.fr /w_lazaret/commun/colloks.htm (5827 words)

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	Theory and World Archaeology: Italy (Part 1)
		He argued that archaeology of broadly processual type has taken root in Italy, although restricted in the main to groups of scholars working in Rome and the Veneto.
		More controversially perhaps, it can be argued that the abuse of archaeology for political purposes during the fascist period has contributed to the post-war development of the subject as a purely empirical discipline, with no relevance to anything beyond itself.
		As archaeology is embedded in contemporary society, gender is entangled in archaeological practice.
	csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk /tag97/italy_1.htm (1636 words)

	PostProcArch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rabb, L. Mark and Albert C. Goodyear (1984) Middle-Range theory in archaeology: a critical review of the origins and applications.
		Discuss some of the approaches that post processual archaeology takes.
		Are you a processual or post processual archaeologist?
	www.uvm.edu /~dblom/handouts/PostProcArch.html (118 words)

	Theory and World Archaeology: Theory in French Archaeology
		For them, history or archaeology can only be the study of the interactions between human beings, nature and the diversity of other cultures.
		The problem is the same whether it relates to the quality of the materials, the techniques used to execute the engravings and their relative chronology, or finally the historico-cultural context in which they are situated.
		The new discipline of archaeology, in its practice of exhuming material traces of national origins, joined with the political project which legitimated the Republic by finding its roots in a cultural continuity going back through time immemorial, and inventing for it its own cultural tradition.
	csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk /tag97/france.htm (1546 words)

	Processual Archaeology — www.greenwood.com
		Description: Processual archaeologists seek to explain variability in the static archaeological record we observe in the present as a necessary first step toward learning how to learn about the operation of cultural dynamics in the past.
		Researchers pursuing processual archaeology have already discovered a great deal about the archaeological record and about past dynamics, and there is a huge potential for building on the foundation laid thus far.
		This book clearly demonstrates that processual archaeology, far from having been replaced by post-processual archaeology, is becoming more and more powerful as our analytic sophistication and knowledge of the archaeological record grow.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C7843 (392 words)

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	Anth 565 - Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The course introduces students to the history of archaeology and the diverse theoretical forms that the discipline takes today.
		Although post-processual archaeology is the latest phase, the face of contemporary archaeology is a diverse one that includes many approaches focused on social agency, critical theory, gender, narrative, evolution, ecology, and cognition.
		Thomas, “The Polarities of Post-Processual Archaeology” (2000, eReserve)
	www.faculty.umb.edu /stephen_silliman/Anth565/anth565syllabus.htm (949 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Reader in Archaeology Theory: Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although this book will be of greatest interest to specialists and students of archaeology, much of the book's content is accessible to nonarchaeologists.
		In fact, it might be a good volume to scan for those who still somehow believe that archaeology is just digging for treasure from the past.
		He is editor of the Routledge Readers in Archaeology series.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415141591 (272 words)

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