1. Review of Post-Processualism
Post –Processualism is the post-modernist in Archaeology
Questions rationality
Objectivity
Science as an Intellectual structure
science is not politically neutral

2. Components of Post-Processual Research Structure
Interpretation, not explanation
Interpretation as relative, contingent and subjective (because objectivity is not possible)
giving voice to the disenfranchized
Multiple views/voices of the past---
Big ideas: ideology, gender, power, agency, ethnicity
How distinguish between various versions of the past? ( Evaluation is not stressed.)

3. CONTRIBUTIONS OF POST-PROCESSUALISM
Generated Considerable Debate
The Political Context of Archaeology
Broadening the Discipline in terms of Practioners Research Questions
The Structure of Museums
Archaeological Ethics

4. Ideas in Science and Post-Processualism What is theory?
Theory in Science:
Coherent intellectual structure
Terms and relations between terms laid out
Theory is narrowly and precisely defined
explanatory theory--- Addresses the question of WHY

5. THEORY IN POST-PROCESSUALISM
Theory as Ideas
Why do archaeology
social and cultural context of archaeology
“All Observations are theory-laden”
Theory as Attitude ( Michael Shanks)
Philosophy:
Agency, Marxism, Hemenuitics