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This page can be expanded to include more about material culture in the present. The archaeological section is fine, but the use and existence of material culture in everyday life is an important omission. Bruxism 22:51, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually there is an interdisciplinary field of material culture studies today interrogating the the complex interrelation between humans, objects and spaces in modern societies, drawing from multiple sources from archeology and anthropology, but also from psychology, material science, semantics, philosophy, ethnology, design history, STS studies, social history, etc. Thus there should be a suplementary article or a rewritten article with a meta-perspective on old and 'new' material culture.
Material culture and cultural material should really be in a seperate article as they are not really relevant to the definition of an archaeological culture. DHBoggs 14:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
For the reasons given above I've started a separate Material culture stub. The "Material culture" and "Cultural material" sections are therefore, in addition to being like the rest of this article almost entirely OR and unreferenced, irrelevant to the topic, so I'm moving them here:
==Material culture== The term ''material culture'' refers both to the psychological role, the meaning, that all physical objects in the environment have to mean something to people in a particular culture and to the range of manufactured objects (techno-complex) that are typical within a socioculture and form an essential part of cultural identity. Human beings perceive and understand the material things around them as they have learned to from their culture. Manufactured items are especially meaningful and the relationship between object and meaning is usually what scholars of material culture study. Material [[culture]] as learned behaviour can be compared to cultural [[linguistics]], (verbal culture). Archaeologists try to understand the general articulation of past human societies by inferring what the less permanent aspects of cultures may have been like from the material record they have left behind. Understanding aspects of the material culture of prehistoric peoples is the goal of some schools in archaeology as exemplified by [[cognitive archaeology]] or [[contextual archaeology]]. Other schools of archaeology, such as [[processualism]] generally avoid attempts to study material culture as a mentalist phenomenon altogether. ==Cultural material== The term ''cultural material'' should not be confused with ''material culture''. This term refers strictly to any object that exists because of human activity, usually, but not always, manufactured objects. It is a phrase used most often by archaeologist to refer to finds from archaeological sites. However, an increasing number of archaeologists and anthropologists are becoming uncomfortable with the term and prefer to use the more neutral [[anthropogenic]] material, particularly in prehistoric contexts, because so little can be known about the "culture" and because human beings, not mindless objects are the bearers of culture. An example of a traditional approach to cultural material is [[William Duncan Strong]]'s [[direct historical approach]]. Cultural or anthropogenic material consists of: *[[Artifact (archaeology)|artefact]]s *[[Feature (archaeology)|feature]]s *[[ecofact]]s (also known as [[Biofact (archaeology)|biofact]]s) *[[manuport]]s
The rest of this article still needs a considerable overhaul. — Joseph Roe Tk• Cb, 07:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
The best content on this page is very similar to the content on the Culture-historical archaeology page. I believe it is more appropriate on that page in which the theoretical and historical origins of the term can be explained. I propose to merge such content into that article and shorten this one making it more of a dictionary entry with links to the anthropology content on Material culture and so on. Also it should be linked to Category:Archaeological cultures PatHadley ( talk) 22:36, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Has anyone ever applied the "archeological culture" concept to historical or contemporary civilizations? If so, it could be useful to describe that here, to show to what extent archeological cultures correspond to social cultures, nations/states, etc. Wardog ( talk) 11:08, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Whether or not each list item had a separate article to link to, it would be useful to have a list of named archaeological cultures, and a one or two sentence description for each. "Clovis", "Bell Beaker", "Corded Ware", "Mousterian", "Lapita" ... these are some that I have heard of. Is "Jomon" an archaeological culture, or defined in some other way? A list article could make it easier to learn the answers to such questions. 120.18.218.108 ( talk) 01:23, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
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This page can be expanded to include more about material culture in the present. The archaeological section is fine, but the use and existence of material culture in everyday life is an important omission. Bruxism 22:51, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually there is an interdisciplinary field of material culture studies today interrogating the the complex interrelation between humans, objects and spaces in modern societies, drawing from multiple sources from archeology and anthropology, but also from psychology, material science, semantics, philosophy, ethnology, design history, STS studies, social history, etc. Thus there should be a suplementary article or a rewritten article with a meta-perspective on old and 'new' material culture.
Material culture and cultural material should really be in a seperate article as they are not really relevant to the definition of an archaeological culture. DHBoggs 14:19, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
For the reasons given above I've started a separate Material culture stub. The "Material culture" and "Cultural material" sections are therefore, in addition to being like the rest of this article almost entirely OR and unreferenced, irrelevant to the topic, so I'm moving them here:
==Material culture== The term ''material culture'' refers both to the psychological role, the meaning, that all physical objects in the environment have to mean something to people in a particular culture and to the range of manufactured objects (techno-complex) that are typical within a socioculture and form an essential part of cultural identity. Human beings perceive and understand the material things around them as they have learned to from their culture. Manufactured items are especially meaningful and the relationship between object and meaning is usually what scholars of material culture study. Material [[culture]] as learned behaviour can be compared to cultural [[linguistics]], (verbal culture). Archaeologists try to understand the general articulation of past human societies by inferring what the less permanent aspects of cultures may have been like from the material record they have left behind. Understanding aspects of the material culture of prehistoric peoples is the goal of some schools in archaeology as exemplified by [[cognitive archaeology]] or [[contextual archaeology]]. Other schools of archaeology, such as [[processualism]] generally avoid attempts to study material culture as a mentalist phenomenon altogether. ==Cultural material== The term ''cultural material'' should not be confused with ''material culture''. This term refers strictly to any object that exists because of human activity, usually, but not always, manufactured objects. It is a phrase used most often by archaeologist to refer to finds from archaeological sites. However, an increasing number of archaeologists and anthropologists are becoming uncomfortable with the term and prefer to use the more neutral [[anthropogenic]] material, particularly in prehistoric contexts, because so little can be known about the "culture" and because human beings, not mindless objects are the bearers of culture. An example of a traditional approach to cultural material is [[William Duncan Strong]]'s [[direct historical approach]]. Cultural or anthropogenic material consists of: *[[Artifact (archaeology)|artefact]]s *[[Feature (archaeology)|feature]]s *[[ecofact]]s (also known as [[Biofact (archaeology)|biofact]]s) *[[manuport]]s
The rest of this article still needs a considerable overhaul. — Joseph Roe Tk• Cb, 07:11, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
The best content on this page is very similar to the content on the Culture-historical archaeology page. I believe it is more appropriate on that page in which the theoretical and historical origins of the term can be explained. I propose to merge such content into that article and shorten this one making it more of a dictionary entry with links to the anthropology content on Material culture and so on. Also it should be linked to Category:Archaeological cultures PatHadley ( talk) 22:36, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Has anyone ever applied the "archeological culture" concept to historical or contemporary civilizations? If so, it could be useful to describe that here, to show to what extent archeological cultures correspond to social cultures, nations/states, etc. Wardog ( talk) 11:08, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Whether or not each list item had a separate article to link to, it would be useful to have a list of named archaeological cultures, and a one or two sentence description for each. "Clovis", "Bell Beaker", "Corded Ware", "Mousterian", "Lapita" ... these are some that I have heard of. Is "Jomon" an archaeological culture, or defined in some other way? A list article could make it easier to learn the answers to such questions. 120.18.218.108 ( talk) 01:23, 19 March 2013 (UTC)