What Is Processual Archaeology?

Post-processist archaeology should be directly called post-processual archaeology, which is a term relative to process archeology.

Post-processist archeology

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Post-processist archaeology should be directly called post-processual archaeology, which is a term relative to process archeology.
Chinese name
Post-processist archeology
Foreign name
post-processual archaeology
Types of
Archeological nouns
nickname
Post-process archeology
In essence, it is also different from the single force of the process school. Its constituents include various tribes, such as:
Ian Hodder's Contextual Archaeology: Emphasizes treating the past as text and interpreting the information in it (see his famous book Reading the Past, third edition).
Kent Flannery's Cognitive Archaeology: Emphasizes human subjective consciousness and abstract levels, such as religion, universe view, etc.
Mark Leono's Critical Archaeology: Questioning the correctness of archaeologists' interpretation of past history based on their own experience, fully reflective.
Margeret Conkey and Joan Gero's Gender Archeology: This group is mostly feminist archeologists, and they criticize women as a second human social structure from a theoretical perspective. They also oppose Man-Hunter and Woman-Gatherer's past. Basic understanding of ethnographers and archeologists.
They are called "post-processes" because their common feature is that they oppose Lewis Binford's over-mechanical system.
The critical views and introspective ability of the post-procedure school certainly provide a lot of space for reflection in the world's archeological community, but many of the views cannot be matched with the actual archeological data. They are not as practical as the relatively traditional methods such as Spatial Analysis for solving the problems of excavation data. The breadth and acceptance of the historical concept of cultural reconstruction in Chinese archeology or archaeology in Taiwan, China may not be able to achieve a dominant position in a short time.

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