Talk:Archaeological culture
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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)
[edit] material culture studies
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.
[edit] seperate article
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)
- No. These are very different uses of the word culture. One is exclusive to archaeology and is essentially synonomous with people, the others have to do with questions of behavior and meaning and are used in an number of other disciplines not uniquely tied to archaeology. As an analogy imagine subsuming the various meanings of the word state under one heading.DHBoggs 16:09, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
