word
ethnoarchaeology
eth-no-ar-kee-OL-oh-jee
ˌɛθnoʊɑːrkiˈɒlədʒiListen
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ethnoarchaeology
Dictionary meaning
the study of living societies and their material culture, spatial organisation, and discard behaviours in order to generate interpretive frameworks and analogies for understanding archaeological evidence from past societies; by observing how contemporary people make, use, and abandon objects, ethnoarchaeologists can build middle-range theories that bridge the gap between the static material record and the dynamic human behaviour that produced it
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