What do you do when you encounter two wizards throwing balls of fire at each other? Soothe them with archaeological theory of course! In this episode, Ash and Tilly have a slightly different task ahead of them as they discuss the history of processual versus post-processual archaeology, all in an attempt to deal with the intricate politics of academic research.

Links

• Michael Shanks and Ian Hodder chapter on “Processual, Postprocessual, and Interpretive Archaeologies” (1995)
• Michael Shanks Chapter on “Post-processual archaeology and after” (2005)

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