The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
35. What is Processual Archaeology?
The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Sarah Kielt Costello
University of Houston - Clear Lake
Description
The principle goal of processual archaeology is to explain cultural change in a scientific manner. The emphasis of processual archaeology, as its name suggests, is on processes and systems. Culture is a system of behaviors. History is a series of processes. If we can define these systems and processes, and understand how they work, then we can explain archaeological phenomena.