Exam 2: Putting the Picture Together

Danish antiquarian Jean Baptiste Lamarck developed the Three Age System in 1816.

Wet screening is used to recover items from submerged sites.

Deduction involves taking available data and inferring general models from it.

Binford thought that for archaeology to be considered a science it must work by ________ from general laws and models.

The goal of postprocessual archaeology is to __________.

How are geographic information systems (GIS) used in archaeology?

According to postprocessual archaeologists, what is the relationship of archaeology to modern society?

__________ stressed the importance of the actions of the individual living in past society.

Compare and contrast the theoretical underpinnings of processual and postprocessual archaeology.

Evolutionary archaeology, ironically, rejects the theory of evolution as having any application to modern archaeology.

What was new about the New Archaeology?