Explain Archaeology as Anthropology

 Archaeology tries to reconstruct past human cultures through their material remains or archaeological records. The archaeological record constitutes the hard facts of the archaeological research design. However, a closer look at the archaeological record will reveal that these facts or the observations of data are not simple (Gamble, 2003). These facts are never neutral or value-free. Any interpretation of the archaeological record is dependent on concepts of two levels.

At the first level stand the theoretical narratives generally followed by the discipline. Facts are arranged according to these paradigms. At the second level stand the concepts of the researcher, whose implications are no less profound.

Theoretical narratives of the discipline associate archaeology with other streams of scientific knowledge. Anthropology provides archaeology such a stream of narrative which enables the researcher of the material remains to interpret the fact in a particular manner. 

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