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Fleming, Andrew. "Post-processual Landscape Archaeology: a Critique." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 16, no. 3 (2006): 267–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774306000163.

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Post-processual theorists have characterized landscape archaeology as practised in the second half of the twentieth century as over-empirical. They have asserted that the discipline is sterile, in that it deals inadequately with the people of the past, and is also too preoccupied with vision-privileging and Cartesian approaches. They have argued that it is therefore necessary to ‘go beyond the evidence’ and to develop more experiential approaches, ‘archaeologies of inhabitation’. This article argues that such a critique is misguided, notably in its rejection of long-accepted modes of fieldwork

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Mithen, Steven. "Evolutionary theory and post-processual archaeology." Antiquity 63, no. 240 (1989): 483–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00076456.

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‘Revolutions may come and go, but evolution just keeps on growing.’ A century after Darwin, and social darwinism, evolutionary theory still has an important place in archaeological thought. Here its relevance and application is set out in relation to recent discussions of archaeological theory.

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Varenius, Björn. "Post-Processual Archaeology in Sweden 1986-1990." Current Swedish Archaeology 3, no. 1 (1995): 121–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.1995.09.

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This paper briefly presents the introduction and early use of postprocessual theories in Sweden, noting that all university departments/ institutes in archaeology to a greater or lesser extent have been influenced by them. The complex and even contradictory character of PPA is emphasized, although not as an epistemological problem.

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Trigger, Bruce G. "Post‐processual developments in Anglo‐American archaeology." Norwegian Archaeological Review 24, no. 2 (1991): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00293652.1991.9965534.

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Tilley, Christopher. "Archaeology: the loss of isolation." Antiquity 72, no. 277 (1998): 691–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00087123.

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It is interesting to reflect that only nine years separate David Clarke’s paper ‘Archaeology: the loss of innocence’ and the publication of Symbolic and structural archaeology (Hodder 1982), which may be taken to mark the beginning of a ‘post-processual’ archaeology. Many of the ideas put forward in that book were being discussed and developed at Cambridge from around 1978. David’s paper, and its publication in ANTIQUITY, may be taken as representing the highwater mark of ‘new’ or processual archaeology in the academy. Almost as soon as the ideas had been presented, and not really very well de

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Slofstra, Jan. "Recent developments in Dutch archaeology." Archaeological Dialogues 1, no. 1 (1994): 9–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203800000040.

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Two stereotype views exist with respect to recent developments in Dutch archaeology. The first holds that the confrontation with New Archaeology in 1968/69 signalled the beginning of an entirely new period in Dutch archaeology. At that point, Dutch archaeologists were first involved in international theoretical discussions, which they have more or less followed ever since. This resulted in the emergence of counterparts in Dutch archaeology of New (or processual) Archaeology, and later of post-processual approaches.

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Politis, Gustavo G. "The Theoretical Landscape and the Methodological Development of Archaeology in Latin America." Latin American Antiquity 14, no. 2 (2003): 115–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3557591.

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AbstractLatin American archaeology has been influenced by the world theoretical context, from which it has developed original approaches. Currently, a culture-history conceptual foundation still predominates in the region, with some modern variants that have emphasized environmental aspects and approached specific problems. Processual archaeology, especially the North American varieties, remains minor in the region despite many Latin American archaeologists’ belief that their work falls within this camp. Post-processual trends are even less well represented, although a growing number of resear

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Andersson, Adam. "Re-considering Processual and Post-Processual Archaeology: Can a Historical Approach Help Nuance the Usage of aDNA and Archaeogenetics." Archaeologia Lituana 23 (March 27, 2023): 34–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/archlit.2022.23.2.

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This article addresses the question of the use of modern archaeogenetics, taking into account the history of the discipline of archaeology itself, and comparing the criticisms that processual archaeology received with the criticisms that are currently directed to the use of archaeogenetics and “new” scientific methods. This paper illustrates that there are several parallels between processual archaeology in the 1980s and the criticisms received by contemporary users of archaeogenetics. This can be seen by examining the criticism that both have received and are currently receiving. This article

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Engelstad, Ericka. "Images of power and contradiction: feminist theory and post-processual archaeology." Antiquity 65, no. 248 (1991): 502–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00080108.

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Archaeology, like many of the sciences, works to a masculine metaphor, the (male) archaeologist as hero explores and tames the mysteries of his (female) subject. Feminist theory has made important criticism of positivist science on these grounds, drawing on much the same postmodern theory as ‘post-processual’ archaeology. How do the ‘post-processuals’ appear, seen in the feminist light?

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Politis, Gustavo G. "The Theoretical Landscape and the Methodological Development of Archaeology in Latin America." American Antiquity 68, no. 2 (2003): 245–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3557079.

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Latin American archaeology has been influenced by the world theoretical context, from which it has developed original approaches. Currently, a culture-history conceptual foundation still predominates in the region, with some modern variants that have emphasized environmental aspects and approached specific problems. Processual archaeology, especially the North American varieties, remains minor in the region despite many Latin American archaeologists' belief that their work falls within this camp. Post-processual trends are even less well represented, although a growing number of researchers fo

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Boomert, Arie, and Alistair J. Bright. "Island Archaeology: In Search of a New Horizon." Island Studies Journal 2, no. 1 (2007): 3–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.197.

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This paper charts the academic development of “island archaeology” from its roots in Darwinist and anthropological island studies through island biogeography to processual and post-processual archaeology. It is argued that the rarely made explicit yet fundamental premise of island archaeology that insular human societies show intrinsic characteristics essentially dissimilar from those on mainlands is false. The persistence of this misconception is due in part to the emphasis on islands as ideal units of analysis. It is suggested that island societies should be studied at the level of the archi

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Mrozowski, Stephen A. "The dialectics of historical archaeology in a post-processual world." Historical Archaeology 27, no. 2 (1993): 106–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03374176.

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Olivier, Laurent. "The origins of French archaeology." Antiquity 73, no. 279 (1999): 176–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00087998.

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In contemporary scientific research, the most marked result of the last 30 years has been the development of a specifically American science and its emancipation from the old European intellectual heritage of the 19th century and the interwar period. This movement, marked in archaeology by the birth of the New Archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s, followed by the anti-processual reaction of the 1980s and 1990s, has been accompanied by a process of globalization of the archaeological discipline, leading to the unification of methods and theory. The birth of a world market dominated by the United

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Gilewski, Michał. "The Role of Maize and the Theoretical Approaches of Archaeology to the Food Resources in the Ancient Maya Culture." Contributions in New World Archaeology 12 (December 31, 2019): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.33547/cnwa.12.03.

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Several theoretical approaches exist for the study of ancient Maya cultures. In the beginning, only limited information was available for these cultures and the early portrayals were greatly influenced by European concepts of antiquity. After this period of Early Maya archaeology, however, the newly-developed processual archaeology was applied. Processualist theory focused on understanding the process of cultural change and relating it to environmental adaptation. Soon after its inception, criticism of this approach led to the emergence of post-processual archaeology, which stressed the import

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Babić, Staša. "The Language of Archaeology II (or: How I survived the paradigm shift)." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 4, no. 1 (2009): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v4i1.6.

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The paper is an auto-reflexive critical reconsideration of the author’s own previous writings on theory in archaeology. The imperfections of the early papers are scrutinized in connection to the prevailing attitude in the local disciplinary community at the time. Archaeology in Serbia has been withdrawn from the main theoretical discussions, and the individual attempts were aimed at compensating for this setback, introducing the essence of the current debates. Since the two major paradigms of the discipline – processual and post-processual, formulated in their original setting within the times

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Karlsson, Håkan. "Conversation in Front of a Megalith - A Contemplative Approach to Archaeology and Our Interpretative Existence." Current Swedish Archaeology 7, no. 1 (2021): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.1999.05.

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During the last few decades of processual and post-processual discussions, the relationship between the archaeological interpreter and the interpreted material culture has been highlighted from different directions. However, it still seems that some fundamental questions concerning this relationship have been forgotten, and that some existential dimensions inherent in it have not been brought forward in processualist or in post-processualist reasoning. In this paper, which takes the form of a conversation between three archaeologists, the "Dwarfs' House" megalith in the northern part of the Sw

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Coudart, Anick. "Is post-processualism bound to happen everywhere? The French case." Antiquity 73, no. 279 (1999): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00087974.

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It may seem surprising that post-processual archaeology has not had any impact in France, given that much of its vocabulary has been borrowed from French intellectuals. The answer is not archaeological. It does not lie in the events of the last 20 years, which have profoundly changed the structure, practices and means of French archaeology. The problem is more fundamental, and derives from the differences of mentality and culture.

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Pirkovič, Jelka. "Does archaeology deliver evidence about the past or co-create contemporary values?" Ars & Humanitas 17, no. 2 (2023): 59–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ars.17.2.59-77.

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The paper focuses on heritage value systems, particularly investigating the archaeological understanding of heritage values and evaluation. The literature review shows that the postmodern archaeological paradigm predominantly covers the topic, while the perspective of the intrinsic value is less explored. The starting point of our research is the thesis that archaeological paradigms obstruct better public support if they refrain from using axiological considerations. By archaeological paradigm, we refer to the processual and post-processual ones (the latter focusing on understanding past socia

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Sunliensyar, Hafiful Hadi. "LANSKAP ARKEOLOGI DALAM PERSPEKTIF PROSESUAL DAN PASCA-PROSESUAL: STUDI KASUS KOMPLEKS MEGALITIK DI DATARAN TINGGI JAMBI." Berkala Arkeologi 38, no. 2 (2018): 100–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.30883/jba.v38i2.267.

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The development of archaeology paradigm from processual to postprocessual, influence the archaeologists thought about landscape. Sometimes, the landscape in archaeology is arduous understood because overlapping with other studies. Actually, this problem can be solved if we analyze the development of archaeology paradigm which associated with landscape study. This article attempts to discuss the ambiguity of landscape in archaeology with case study on the megalithic complex in Jambi Highland. Based on the data, it is known that: landscape in procesual study just explain the association between

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Sawicki, Mananne. "Archaeology as space technology: Digging for gender and class in holy land." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 6, no. 1-4 (1994): 319–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006894x00172.

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AbstractContemporary archaeology offers three methodological options: the classlcal, the processual or scientific, and the post-processual. I propose a stance of "chastened realism" that integrates aspects of all three options toward a program for recovering information about non-élite sectors of ancient societies, and particularly for reconstructing their systems of gender, kinship, and labour The discipline of archaeology manipulates space in the effort to understand it. However the space that one seeks to understand - that is, to manage epistemologically - is space that already has undergon

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Thomas, Julian. "The Hollow Men? A Reply to Steven Mithen." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 57, no. 2 (1991): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00004473.

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This article constitutes a reply to a piece by Steven Mithen, in which an earlier contribution in this journal (Thomas 1988) is criticized as misrepresenting the character of Mesolithic archaeology. Mithen contends that the ‘processual’ archaeology which dominates that period can be humanized by introducing a consideration of emotion into the adaptive process. In this contribution it is suggested that the emphasis on emotion and rationality betrays a misunderstanding of the character of ‘post-processual’ archaeology, while the attempt to encompass emotion in an evolutionary ecological framewor

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Pope, Rachel. "Processual archaeology and gender politics. The loss of innocence." Archaeological Dialogues 18, no. 1 (2011): 59–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203811000134.

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AbstractProviding a younger woman's perspective, and born out of the 2006 Cambridge Personal Histories event on 1960s archaeology, this paper struggles to reconcile the panel's characterization of a ‘democratization’ of the field with an apparent absence of women, despite their relative visibility in 1920s–1940s archaeology. Focusing on Cambridge, as the birthplace of processualism, the paper tackles the question ‘where were the women?’ in 1950s–1960s archaeology. A sociohistorical perspective considers the impact of traditional societal views regarding the social role of women; the active gen

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Crețu, Ciprian. "Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Mortuary Rituals – a Synthesis." Revista CICSA online, Serie Nouă, no. 1 (2015): 4–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31178/cicsa.2015.1.1.

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Anthropology and archaeology have a long tradition in shaping a discourse on the phenomenon of death. From the very beginning of the archeological discipline there is to be noticed a special interest regarding the funerary contexts – the funerary inventory, the body of the deceased and the treatment applied to it. This paper is an attempt to review a vast literature concerned with the significance of funerary rituals, from both disciplines – cultural anthropology and archaeology – while seeking to capture the emergence of some research paradigms that marked the history of archaeological though

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Demoule, Jean-Paul. "Ethnicity, culture and identity: French archaeologists and historians." Antiquity 73, no. 279 (1999): 190–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00088013.

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The state of French archaeological theory has been recently covered by two French-authored papers in English (Audouze & Leroi-Gourhan 1981; Cleuziou et al. 1991). These articles emphasize the weight of national tradition and demonstrate the unique position of France between two great currents of European, indeed world, archaeology: Germanic (concerned with cultural and chronological classification) and English-speaking (more interested in general interpretative models). These two articles also ponder another phenomenon: the relative absence of French archaeology in theoretical — notably po

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Olsen, Bjørnar. "After Interpretation: Remembering Archaeology." Current Swedish Archaeology 20, no. 1 (2021): 11–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2012.01.

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In the light of some significant anniversaries, this pa- per discusses the fate of archaeological theory after the heyday of postprocessualism. While once considered a radical and revolutionary alternative, post- processual or interpretative archaeology remarkably soon became normalized, mainstream and hegem- onic, leading to the theoretical lull that has charac- terized its aftermath. Recently, however, this consen- sual pause has been disrupted by new materialist per- spectives that radically depart from the postproces- sual orthodoxy. Some outcomes of these perspectives are proposed and dis

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Chadwick, Adrian. "Post-processualism, professionalization and archaeological methodologies. Towards reflective and radical practice." Archaeological Dialogues 10, no. 1 (2003): 97–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203803001107.

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In recent years the gap between archaeological theory and practice has been closing, but although there have been calls for ‘reflexivity’, there has been little critical examination of its meanings. Proposed reflexive methodologies still perpetuate many traditional hierarchies of power, and fail to consider the creative nature of excavation and post-excavation. Much archaeological work in Britain, Europe and North America also takes place within the commercial sphere, and post-processual ideas cannot advance archaeological practice unless they can be implemented in contract archaeology. This p

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Shackel, Paul A., and Barbara J. Little. "Post-Processual approaches to meanings and uses of material culture in historical archaeology." Historical Archaeology 26, no. 3 (1992): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03373538.

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Kristiansen, Kristian. "The black and the red: Shanks & Tilley's programme for a radical archaeology." Antiquity 62, no. 236 (1988): 473–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00074573.

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Prominent in the new literature of a ‘post-processual’, ‘critical’ or ‘radical’ archaeology are a pair of books, conveniently colour-coded as one black and one red, written by Michael Shanks 6. Christopher Tilley, and both published in 1987. The ‘black book’, from Cambridge University Press, has a stark cover mostly of solid black; the cover of the ‘red book’, from Polity Press, is a more cheerful crimson, though its picture, a 19th-century Comedy of death, is a despairing image of dismal decay.Kristian Kristiansen, of the Center for Research in the Humanities, University of Copenhagen, review

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Berggren, Åsa. "Swedish Archaeology in Perspective and the Possibility of Reflexivity." Current Swedish Archaeology 9, no. 1 (2021): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2001.01.

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In exploring the possibilities of reflexivity in the Cultural Resource Management archaeology in Sweden, a comparison is made between the excavation at Çatalhöyük in Turkey and an excavation at Burlöv in Malmö, Sweden. The former, a large-scale research project that aims at implementing post-processual ideas, differs in many ways from the latter, which is part of a large-scale rescue project, Öresundsförbindelsen. There are also similarities, and in different ways reflexivity seems to be achieved in both cases.

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Witmore, Christopher. "Finding symmetry? Archaeology, Objects, and Posthumanism." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31, no. 3 (2021): 477–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774321000160.

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Well before the turn of the century, it had become clear that archaeology's aspiration to study the past was, true to the modern project, a pretext for a deeper desire to fabricate its objects. Material culture, materiality, the material past, material residues, heritage—the objects of interpretive (post-processual) archaeology could only be characterized as a continuation of this modern project. While finding symmetry was tied to an upheaval from this mode of disciplinary production, it may now be characterized as one cue among others in more agile archaeological theory. After briefly contras

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Bernbeck, Reinhard, and Susan Pollock. "Presentism and the LAW." Archaeological Dialogues 5, no. 1 (1998): 34–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203800002555.

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We welcome the Lampeter Archaeology Workshop's (LAW) attempt to clarify the ways in which they understand relativism in post-processual archaeology and especially their distinctions among several kinds of relativism. We would like to comment on links between epistemological relativism and a particular view of history (or, more generally, the past) that the LAW's discussion raises. In particular, we draw attention to several implications of their positions, including the relative emphasis placed on the past and/or the present in archaeological interpretations, different ways of linking past and

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Little, Barbara J., and Paul A. Shackel. "Scales of historical anthropology: an archaeology of colonial Anglo-America." Antiquity 63, no. 240 (1989): 495–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00076468.

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The belief that the great issues of social existence can be well addressed by studying the minutiae of domestic life is a theme in the influential work of some recent French historians, as it is in James Deetz's little classic of historical archaeology, In small things forgotten. And it chimes with the ‘post-processual’ concern to see how people structured their lives and how those structures reflect and and are reflected in relations of power and control. These issues are here explored in the domestic possessions of 18th-century Marylanders.

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Thomas, Julian. "The future of archaeological theory." Antiquity 89, no. 348 (2015): 1287–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.183.

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In this latest contribution to our ‘Archaeological Futures’ series, Julian Thomas reflects on the current state of Western archaeological theory and how it is probably going to develop over the next few years. Archaeological theory has not ossified in the period since the processual/post-processual exchanges. The closer integration of archaeological thought with philosophical debate in the human sciences has gradually given rise to a theoretical landscape that would have been unrecognisable 30 years ago, wherein ‘new materialisms’ figure significantly.

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Sraka, Marko. "Book review: Stella Souvatzi and Athena Hadji (eds.) Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory (Routledge Studies in Archaeology)." Documenta Praehistorica 41 (December 30, 2014): 308–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.41.16.

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The collection of papers Space and Time in Medi- terranean Prehistory is an outcome of the collabo- ration between Stella Souvatzi, who regularly writes on spatiality within social archaeological themes such as households, as in her recent book A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece, and Athena Hadji, whose Berkeley PhD thesis was entitled on The Construction of Time in Aegean Archaeology. The editors invited researchers from a predominantly interpretative (post-processual) ar- chaeological tradition who deal with Mediterranean prehistory and included a few selected revised con

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Algrain, Isabelle. "Gender and diversity in archaeological contexts." Revista Arqueologia Pública 16, no. 1 (2021): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/rap.v16i1.8663897.

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If gender has been a part of post-processual archaeology for the last fifty years, some feminist and queer approaches have more recently started to be integrated into research by taking into account non-binary genders, gender fluidity and transidentities in archaeological contexts, particularly in the study of North American contexts where many societies are non-binary. Through a reflective and theoretical approach, this article considers the question of non-binary genders, gender fluidity and transidentities in ancient societies that are strictly binary and examines how archaeologists can int

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Müller, Ulrich. "Steps towards understanding medieval urban communities as social practice." Archaeological Dialogues 22, no. 2 (2015): 141–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203815000197.

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The contribution by Axel Christophersen aims to present new perspectives for the archaeology of medieval and post-medieval towns. In enlisting ‘social-practice theory’, the author would like to view the town as a dynamic, ever-changing network of social and cultural practices which is registered in the archaeological data. This perspective on the town lies, therefore, somewhere between structure-centred and agent-centred approaches. As such, Axel Christophersen's contribution can be seen as more comprehensive. I assess the piece also as a programmatic contribution to the development of theory

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Pollock, Susan, Reinhard Bernbeck, Lena Appel, Anna K. Loy, and Stefan Schreiber. "Are All Things Created Equal? The Incidental in Archaeology." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30, no. 1 (2020): 141–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000489.

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Archaeologists evince a strong tendency to impute significance to the material traces they study, a propensity that has been especially marked since the post-processual emphasis on meaning and that has taken on renewed vigour with the turn to materiality. But are there not situations in which things are rather incidental or insignificant? This set of essays emerged from a workshop held in Berlin in April 2018, in which a group of scholars was invited to discuss the place of the incidental in social life in general and in archaeology in particular. Rather than lengthy formal papers, we offer an

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Small, David B. "The dual-processual model in ancient Greece: Applying a post-neoevolutionary model to a data-rich environment." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 28, no. 2 (2009): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2009.02.004.

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Banning, Edward B. "Sampled to Death? The Rise and Fall of Probability Sampling in Archaeology." American Antiquity 86, no. 1 (2020): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.39.

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After a heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, probability sampling became much less visible in archaeological literature as it came under assault from the post-processual critique and the widespread adoption of “full-coverage survey.” After 1990, published discussion of probability sampling rarely strayed from sample-size issues in analyses of artifacts along with plant and animal remains, and most textbooks and archaeological training limited sampling to regional survey and did little to equip new generations of archaeologists with this critical aspect of research design. A review of the last 20 yea

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Gordon, Richard. "Making magic." Antiquity 94, no. 376 (2020): 1080–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.98.

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At first sight, these two volumes represent different views of the task of interpreting material culture: the first seems to announce a post-processual paradigm, emphasising the agency of objects and the ambivalence of meanings in the area of magical practice, whereas the second makes no overt claims about materiality while based firmly on museum objects. In fact, however, the differences between them are rather smaller than first impressions suggest.

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Živaljević, Ivana. "Animals between Nature and Culture: The Story of Archaeozoology." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 8, no. 4 (2016): 1137. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v8i4.12.

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The paper aims to tell the story of archaeozoology and utilize it to point out changes in the perception of nature and culture, the perception of animals as organisms that belong entirely to the domain of nature (unlike people who ‘build’ culture onto their nature), as well as display how these perceptions shaped the discipline of archaeozoology and influenced its position within archaeology. Animal remains, almost as a rule, represent some of the most common findings at archaeological sites; however, the attention which has been given to them in archaeological analysis and interpretation was

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Garland, Nicky. "Rethinking the dichotomy: ‘Romans’ and ‘barbarians’." Antiquity 92, no. 362 (2018): 538–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.23.

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Our understanding of the interactions between the Roman Empire and indigenous societies (or ‘barbarians’) that lay within or surrounding its borders has undergone considerable advances over the last 30 years. Stemming initially from a colonial perspective, which saw the Roman Empire as ‘civilising’ those who were subsumed into it, the study of these interactions now includes a wealth of diverse post-processual or post-colonial approaches that stress the complexity of interactions within and between these social groups. Even with these advances, the self-imposed opposition between prehistoric a

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De Carvalho Brandão Soares, Pedro. "Mapas coloniais e arqueologia." Vestígios - Revista Latino-Americana de Arqueologia Histórica 18, no. 1 (2024): 57–72. https://doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v18i1.48497.

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This article maps the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries archaeological sites in Guanabara Bay, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and analyses its coeval cartographic representation. The archaeological sites, registered at the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN) website, are plotted using Geographic Information System (GIS) and satellite images. Then, the plotted site’s geolocations are compared with their sixteenth and seventeenth century cartographic representation, imbued by a colonialist mentality. The cartography is understood as a source to discuss about

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Olivier, Laurent. "Interpreting Archaeological Evidence in the Anthropocene. Incidentality and Meaning." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30, no. 1 (2020): 160–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000532.

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The post-processual archaeology that dominated the scholarship of Anglo-American academics in the 1980s and 1990s now lies moribund, done in by an ‘ontological turn’ in the study of anthropology that began some 15 or 20 years ago. Anthropos is no longer the sole focal point; human beings no longer occupy the central place in our understanding of cultures and societies. As contemporary anthropologists have noted, human actions and ideas are not the lone contributors to the creation of a civilization's structures and objects or the development of societal forms. Other kinds of ‘life’, a variety

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Park, Gyeong Min. "A Study on the Relationship between Crisis Discourse and Archaeological Data." Yeongnam Archaeological Society 96 (May 31, 2023): 151–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.47417/yar.2023.96.151.

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Crisis has both material attribute and favorite attribute, and it is not easy to define universally because relative attributes can also be revealed. In addition, when defining a crisis in the past, perception of the current crisis, that is, periodical values can be inherent. Crisis can exist through the narrative and discourse as social structuralists argue, but it needs to consider additional relational problems of the crisis that material phenomena can create in interaction with us. Crisis in archaeology is also discussed as the process of the appearance and disappearance in archeological d

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Haskevych, Dmytro. "On One More Concept of “Neolithic” Based on the Postmodernism Approach." Arheologia, no. 4 (December 23, 2022): 105–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/arheologia2022.04.105.

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Valerii Manko and Guram Chkhatarashvili published their article in the “Arheologia”, No. 2, 2022. In the paper, they discussed the migration of bearers of four Neolithic flint industries from Southwest Asia through the Caucasus to the south of Eastern Europe from the final Pleistocene to the early Atlantic. According to the authors, stable connections between these remote areas led to the emergence of four “information networks”, which they called “Cultural-Historical Regions” (CHR). The authors believe that the first region of such type in human history was the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)

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Hodges, Richard. "A ‘processual-plus’ corrective to the origins of Anglo-Saxon England - PAM J. CRABTREE, EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN. THE REBIRTH OF TOWNS IN THE POST-ROMAN WEST (Case Studies in Early Societies; Cambridge University Press 2018). Pp. xvii + 227, figs. 45. ISBN 978-0-521-71370-2 (pbk.). $34.99." Journal of Roman Archaeology 32 (2019): 980–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1047759419001119.

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Dobres, Marcia-Anne. "Kelley Hays-Gilpin & David S. Whitley (ed).). Reader in gender archaeology. x+384 pages. 1998. London & New York (NY): Routledge. 0-415-17360-4 paperback £18.99. David S. Whitley. Reader in archaeological theory: Post-processual and cognitive approaches. xiv+347 pages. 1998. London: Routledge; 0-415-14159-1 hardback £55; 0-415-14160-5 paperback £16.99 - David S. Whitley. Reader in archaeological theory: post-processual and cognitive approaches. xiv+347 pages. 1998. London: Routledge; 0-415-14159-1 hardback E55: 0-415-14160-5 paperback $16.99." Antiquity 73, no. 280 (1999): 479–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00088530.

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Minta-Tworzowska, Danuta. "Teoretyczne i metodologiczne podstawy archeologicznego dyskursu w Polsce. Zarys problematyki." Przegląd Archeologiczny 70 (December 16, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.23858/pa70.2022.3032.

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The aim of the article is the preliminary presentation of the methodological tradition and theoretical condition of Polish archaeology. I focus here on the standard practice of Polish archaeologists, showing that either they have developed by themselves, borrowed or adapted elements of theories. Archaeological publications will be the basis for the article. The article also points to the multifaceted inspiration flowing from the humanities, social and biological sciences towards archaeology. The role of methodological turns was emphasized: anti-positivist, textual, visual, and performative. As

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"Relativism, Objectivity and the Politics of the Past." Archaeological Dialogues 4, no. 2 (1997): 164–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203800001045.

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This paper results from a seminar and discussion series at Lampeter which was triggered by concern over the increasingly common view presented in archaeological literature which equates a caricature of‘post-processual’ archaeology with an equally naive understanding of relativism. In particular, it was noted that the recent book edited by Kohl and Fawcett (1995) contained many statements and editorial insertions which took this approach. Through a series of presented short papers and discussion we decided to explore why we were unhappy with these characterisations of both relativism and post-p

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