Culture-historical archaeology is an archaeological theory that emphasises defining historical societies into distinct ethnic and cultural groupings according to their material culture.
Items from the Neolithic "Beaker culture"; the idea of defining distinct "cultures" according to their material culture was at the core of culture-historical archaeology.
The rise of European nationalism in the 19th century played a key role in the development of culture-historical archaeology.
Rudolf Virchow NLM3
Gustaf Kossinna by Bruno Dietrich Sassnick
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Material culture is culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society. The term is primarily used in archaeology and anthropology, but is also of interest to sociology, geograph
Culture-historical archaeology
…archaeology is an archaeological theory that emphasises defining historical societies into distinct ethnic and cultural groupings according to their material culture. It originated in the late nineteenth century as cultural evolutionism began to fall out of favor with many antiquarians and archaeologists. It was…
Pottery is an easily recognised form of material culture as it is commonly found as archaeological artifacts, representing cultures of the past.
Roman coin, the aureus
Finding tools of the past is considered a way to discover the level of development of a culture.
An archaeologist searches for evidence of glass objects among ruins.