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Date
2018
Publishing House and Editing Place
Springer Nature Switzerland
Book
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Section: Archaeology of Art
(pp. 1-7)
Springer Nature Switzerland
Springer Nature Switzerland
ISBN
978-3-319-51726-1
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There is a general agreement with respect to which processual archeology represented a reorientation of our perception of the material record in methodological and technical domain more than in theoretical ones. Beyond the sharp criticisms and questions to which their interpretations have been subjected, the core methodological procedures introduced by processual archeology are still at the basis of any archaeological research program.Although the analysis of visual manifestations was not a mai...
There is a general agreement with respect to which processual archeology represented a reorientation of our perception of the material record in methodological and technical domain more than in theoretical ones. Beyond the sharp criticisms and questions to which their interpretations have been subjected, the core methodological procedures introduced by processual archeology are still at the basis of any archaeological research program.Although the analysis of visual manifestations was not a main concern, the conceptual and methodological changes carried forward by processualists are derived in a particular way to look at the material culture and therefore had great influence on art studies. In this entry the historical background, current debates and future perspectives of processual archaeology in art studies domain are presented and discussed.
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Key Words
PROCESSUAL ARCHAEOLOGYCURRENT PERSPECTIVESHISTORICAL BACKGROUNDART STUDIES