Author: iamdefinitory

Agency Theory in Archaeology – The study of individual and collective actions in shaping past societies.

Feminist Archaeology – An approach that examines gender roles and biases in past societies and in the practice of archaeology.

Evolutionary Archaeology – The application of Darwinian principles to understand cultural and technological change over time.

Experimental Archaeology – The recreation of ancient technologies and activities to understand how artifacts were made and used.

Ethnoarchaeology – The study of living societies to understand how their behaviors relate to archaeological remains.

Behavioral Archaeology – A theory that focuses on how human actions create and modify material culture.

Cognitive Archaeology – The study of past human thought processes, beliefs, and ideologies based on archaeological evidence.

Structuralist Archaeology – An approach that examines how human thought and social structures shape material culture.

Marxist Archaeology – An interpretation of archaeology that focuses on economic structures, class struggle, and social change.

Post-Processual Archaeology – A reaction to processual archaeology that emphasizes human agency, symbolism, and social structures in the past.