Archaeology as a Process: Processualism and Its Progeny

by Michael J. O'Brien, R. Lee Lyman, Michael Brian Schiffer

Book Overview

The publication in 1962 of Lew Binford's paper "Archaeology as Anthropology" is generally considered to mark the birth of processualism--a critical turning point in American archaeology. In the hands of Binford and other young University of Chicago graduates of the 1960s, this "new" archaeology became the mainstream approach in the U.S. The realignment that the processualists proposed was so thorough that its effects are still being felt today. Predictably,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874808170
• ISBN13: 9780874808179
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 10.3"