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I teach the undergraduate Archaeological Theory course
each semester at SFU. The nal exercise in the course is
What Does Archaeological Theory Look Like? !
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The students are asked to visualize archaeological theory
in a way that is meaningful to them. !
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As you will see, their work not only reveals much about
their particular views of archaeology, but often does so in
some wonderfully creative and thoughtful ways.!
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Debbie!
Brock!
Kelcie!
What an archaeologist,with
no theory training,is thinking
about in the eld.!
Brock!
Kelcie!
What an
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thinking !
Tyronne!
Clayton!
Ross!
Nicole!
Brittney!
Alannah!
Ania!
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Mirror, Mirror
on the wall,
whos the most
theorist of them
all?
Marxism!
Dialectical!
Indigenous
archaeology!
Critical
archaeology!
To be
continued!?
Environmen
al e#ects!
Culture
History!
Feminism!
Functionism!
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Mirror, Mirror
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whos the most
theorist of them
all?
Tyler!
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Ross!
Ryan!
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Nonsense
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Positivism
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Processualism
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Materialism
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Processualism
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Moderatism
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Idealism
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Culture History
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Nonsense!
Relativism
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Laura%
The Stratigraphy
of Archaeological
Theory.
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The Future of
Archaeological
Theory
Archaeological
Theory Today
Indigenous
Feminist
Marxist
Symbolic/ Contextual
Post-Processual
Processual
Archaeology
Shannon Enns
Functionalism
Culture History
Antiquarianism
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The Band!
Band
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Tribe!
State
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Chiefdom!
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Circle the BEST answer:
A.
B.
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D.
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Evolutionism - Unilinear
Neo-Evolutionism
Diffusionism
None of the Above
Intermission Arch 471
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Just Kidding!!!!!!!
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Note: Contact
between units is not
sharp, parts of
lower units
continue into the
next. While one
unit may be
dominated by a
particular deposit,
previous deposits
may also occur
within the unit, and
do not cease to exist
within the prole. !
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Archaeological Theory
Processual
Archaeology
Unilinear Cultural
Evolution
Culture History
Neoevolutionism
Cultural
Ecology
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Structural
Functionalism
Post-processual
Archaeology
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We join little Alex as his instructor
counsels him
CONTINGENT!!
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Don!t be afraid!
Come with me and
we!ll apply theory to
our research! We!ll
have oh so much fun
as we postulate
possible pasts!
The End.
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Archaeologist and
their different theories
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Relativism/
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Science/
Humanity!
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Indigenous
Archaeology
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Postprocessualism
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Ethnoarchaeology !
Middle Range Theory
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Processualism!
Culture
History!
Essentialism!
Ideology!
Hermeneutics!
Di#usionism
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Antiquarianism!
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The Great
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Archaeological
Theory that
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