Title | Archaeology as anthropology |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1962 |
Authors | Binford, L. R. |
Journal | American Antiquity |
Volume | 28 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 217-225 |
Call Number | UCSB 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. |