Processual archaeology
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Processual archaeology is a form of archaeological theory. It had its beginnings in 1958 with the work of Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, in which the pai
Processual archaeology originated in American archaeology, where analysing historical change over time had proved difficult with existing technology
Culture-historical archaeology is an archaeological theory that emphasises defining historical societies into distinct ethnic and cultural groupings according to their material culture.
Processual archaeology
…anthropology, which were to answer questions about humans and human culture. This was meant to be a critique of the former period in archaeology, the cultural-history phase in which archaeologists thought that information artifacts contained about past culture would be lost once the items became included in the…
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