Authors
Khadeeja Abdul
Abstract
Ethnoarchaeology is the field of study that focus on the information required to draw the reliable behavioral inference from the archaeological data. The present study deals with the major role and importance of ethnoarchaeology that combine both the study of archaeology and ethnography. The ethnoarchaeology reviews the comparison of both the past and present data. It is well known for its facility to evaluate the assumptions utilize by the archaeologist. The review is done which contain the relevant information regarding hunter-gather mobility, technological system related with various research, prehistoric life with their archaeological records. The discussed processes was further help in the future advancement and were utilize worldwide. Keywords: Ethnoarchaeology, archaeology, ethnography, behavioral inference
Introduction
Ethnoarchaeology is basically a sub discipline of anthropology which help the archeologist to experience a number of transformation to reveal the prehistoric description. The Ethanoarchaeology was formal dated to appearance in approx. 1956. Hence in 1957 Joseph Bauxar considered as the first to use the term ethanoarcehology. It is known as the combination of both the ethanographic and archeological approaches (David and Kramer, 6-9).
Ethnoarchaeology was simply defined as the need of archeologist which help them to explore the early or very old things of archeology. It was typically known as one facet of middle-range theory and research part. The ethanoarcehology is the complete formulation and testing of all the archeologically concerned and their related methods, models, hypothesis as well as theories with the ethnographic data. It conclusively initiate with the archeological testing of hypothesis and theories relevant to these interest and later back to the archeological record to implement knowledge gathered from the ethanographic data.
In preview of comparing past and present, Ethnoarcheology has been progressively associated with more behavioral and ecological approaches. One can isolate some of the aspects of culture i.e. the economic or technological with the other aspects so as to assume the optimized relations (Hodder, 8).
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