Archaeology as anthropology

TitleArchaeology as anthropology
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1962
AuthorsBinford, L. R.
JournalAmerican Antiquity
Volume28
Issue2
Pagination217-225
Call NumberUCSB Main E1.A5
Abstract...it is suggested that "material culture" can and does represent the total culture system, and that explanations of differences and similarities between certain classes of material culture are inappropriate and inadequate as explanations for such observations within other classes of items.Explanation depends upon archaeologists thinking of their data as total cultural systems.