Ian Hodder pioneered the (*) "post-processual" approach to this discipline.
Michael Schiffer argued that so-called "c-transforms" and "n-transforms" produce the "context" studied by this discipline. A holistic, structuralist approach to aesthetics in this discipline was developed by André Leroi-Gourhan. This is the first title discipline of a 1962 essay that includes a classification of "technomic," "socio-technic," and "ideo-technic" things. David Clarke famously argued that this discipline had suffered a "loss of innocence" since the time of men like V. Gordon Childe and Mortimer Wheeler. Ian Hodder pioneered the (*) "post-processual" approach to this discipline. This discipline often studies middens, and frequently integrates numismatics and epigraphy. This discipline is the main non-geologic use of stratigraphy, which it uses to establish chronology. For 10 points, name this discipline practiced by people like Arthur Evans and Heinrich Schliemann, who investigated sites like Knossos and Troy by carrying out excavations.
Michael Schiffer argued that so-called "c-transforms" and "n-transforms" produce the "context" studied by this discipline.
archaeology [accept more specific subdisciplines of archaeology, such as ethnoarchaeology; prompt on "anthropology" and "history"] 