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In this chapter I explore the nature of a conceptual and epistemological conflict between processual and post-processual archaeology, largely in terms of a hard-fought debate between Lewis Binford and the Cambridge post-processual school which took place in the two decades before 1990. This microhistory is supported by a backdrop survey of the causes of change within archaeology that occurred during that period, which emphasizes the importance of debate about the values and shortcomings of a functionalist reading of materialist ontology, and about the epistemological status of empirical archaeological data.

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Expanding the Theoretical: Processual and Post-processual Archaeologies 1960–1990

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  • Tim Murray

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In this chapter I explore the nature of a conceptual and epistemological conflict between processual and post-processual archaeology, largely in terms of a hard-fought debate between Lewis Binford and the Cambridge post-processual school which took place in the two decades before 1990. This microhistory is supported by a backdrop survey of the causes of change within archaeology that occurred during that period, which emphasizes the importance of debate about the values and shortcomings of a functionalist reading of materialist ontology, and about the epistemological status of empirical archaeological data.