Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The ethnographic study of peoples for archaeological reasons.
Etymologies
- ethno- + archaeology (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The study of both assemblages (and the data collected on each) is also a result of archaeological research (a particular kind of archaeological research called "ethnoarchaeology") and exemplifies the primary goal of archaeology.”
“At that time, archaeologists were becoming increasingly excited by the promise of what was called “ethnoarchaeology,” the study of present-day cultures as an aid to the interpretation of past societies.”
“For a long time, however, Ian made little connection between the intellectual questions posed by the reading he was doing and the down-to-earth problems he was having with his ethnoarchaeology research in Africa.”
“Ian, with some strategic help from the famous Kenyan anthropologist Richard Leakey, decided to launch his own ethnoarchaeology studies among the Baringo tribes.”
“He agreed to let her carry out an ethnoarchaeology project in the villages around Çatalhöyük.”
“Yet hardly anyone was doing ethnoarchaeology in Turkey.”
“Her research interests include faunal analysis, ethnoarchaeology, domestic architecture, state control of storage, and reciprocity.”
“Some archaeologists have employed ethnoarchaeology, living for long periods among surviving hunter-gatherer and subsistence-farming societies like the San hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa.”
“Archaeologists use three major approaches to interpretation: ethnographic analogy, ethnoarchaeology, and controlled experimentation.”
“This means looking at the impact of catastrophes on historical or modern cultures similar to those being studied archaeologically, the ethnoarchaeology of natural disasters.”
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