Archaeological theory refers to the various intellectual frameworks through which archaeologists interpret archaeological data. Archaeological theory...

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts...

range theory. Archaeologist Kent Flannery described the application of systems theory to archaeology in his paper Archaeological Systems Theory and Early...

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techniques to archaeological materials). Martinón-Torres and Killick claim that ‘archaeological science’ has promoted the development of high-level theory in archaeology...

In archaeology, middle-range theory refers to theories linking human behaviour and natural processes to physical remains in the archaeological record...

Culture-historical archaeology is an archaeological theory that emphasises defining historical societies into distinct ethnic and cultural groupings according...

Processual archaeology (formerly, the New Archaeology) is a form of archaeological theory. It had its beginnings in 1958 with the work of Gordon Willey...

its adherents, is a movement in archaeological theory that emphasizes the subjectivity of archaeological interpretations. Despite having a vague series...

cisgender approaches to archaeological practice. In 2016, a special issue of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory was dedicated to papers that...

self-identifying societies or ethnic groups. Archaeological culture is a classifying device to order archaeological data, focused on artifacts as an expression...

Archaeological Method and Theory Vol. 1 No. 1 2007. "Doing Archaeology as a Feminist". Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Vol. 14 Franklin 2001....

detection in the archaeological record. Other ECA investigations have focused on the development of domain-specific abilities, including theory of mind, visual...

documenting and interpreting the archaeological record. Archaeological theory is used to interpret the archaeological record for a better understanding...

Behavioural archaeology is an archaeological theory that expands upon the nature and aims of archaeology in regards to human behaviour and material culture...

religions. Feminist theory in gender archaeology has presented a new perspective and introduced some biases in the overall archaeological theory. This new perspective...

Rachel Crellin is an archaeologist who specialises in archaeological theory and the prehistory of the British Isles. She joined the University of Leicester...

The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory is a peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on methodology and theory in archaeology. It is published...

Tyne) is a British archaeologist specialising in classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University...

new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout...

approaches currently used to analyze archaeological remains from an evolutionary perspective: evolutionary archaeology and behavioral (or evolutionary) ecology...

Stratigraphy is a key concept to modern archaeological theory and practice. Modern excavation techniques are based on stratigraphic principles. The concept...

Landscape archaeology, previously known as total archaeology is a sub-discipline of archaeology and archaeological theory. It studies the ways in which...

concern in archaeological ontology. For example, what effect does periodisation, e.g. the three age model, have on archaeological theory and practice...

Marxist archaeology is an archaeological theory that interprets archaeological information using the framework of dialectical materialism, which is often...

in its transmission. According to Renfrew's most recent revision of the theory, however, Old Europe was a "secondary urheimat" (linguistic homeland) where...

The Kurgan hypothesis (also known as the Kurgan theory, Kurgan model, or steppe theory) is the most widely accepted proposal to identify the Proto-Indo-European...

was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period. He is widely considered...

The term migrationism, in the history of archaeological theory, was opposed to the term diffusionism (or "immobilism") as a means of distinguishing two...

In archaeology, the Saxe–Goldstein hypothesis is a middle-range theory about the relationship between a society's burial practices and its social organization...