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Science 20 November 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5393, p. 1444
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5393.1444
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Digging Into the Life of the Mind

Michael Balter

CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--The new dig at Çatalhöyük (see main text) is being closely watched by the archaeological community--yet as much for the way it is being dug as for what it is finding. Its head, Ian Hodder of Cambridge University, has spent much of his career leading a movement called "postprocessualism" that puts much more emphasis on studying the symbolic and cognitive life of ancient peoples than do established archaeological approaches and argues for the need to accept and even welcome differing interpretations of an archaeological site. He sees the dig as his best chance to prove that the postprocessual approach can work.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)