Abstract
It’s a book review on the recently published Teaching Archaeology: Lewis R. Binford in the Classroom edited by Nancy Medaris Stone and K. Paddayya by Aryan Books International, New Delhi in 2020.
Highlights
Lewis R Binford is an American archaeologist known for the initiation of what came to be known as ‘New Archaeology’
New Archaeology brought in a paradigm shift with the application of quantitative methods and the practice of archaeology as a rigorous science
The book starts with Binford and the India connection written by K Paddayya. This small piece was of great interest to many of us especially those associated with Deccan College, Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune
Summary
Lewis R Binford is an American archaeologist known for the initiation of what came to be known as ‘New Archaeology’. Sarkar: Book Review Teaching Archaeology on to mentioning two schools in archaeology in the later part of the nineteenth century according to Binford – the Formalists studying form and trying to invent frames of reference for looking at it and that of Reconstructionists – the ones who wanted to reconstruct the past. According to Binford culture is often viewed as the cause of variability where ‘culture’ becomes the explanation for the archaeological record.
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