Stanley South
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Stanley South is an American archaeologist who was a major proponent of the processual archaeology
movement. South's major contributions to archaeology deal in helping to legitimize it as a more scientific endeavor.
Processual archaeology
Processual archaeology is a form of archaeological theory that had its genesis in 1958 with Willey and Phillips' work Method and Theory in American Archeology, in which the pair stated that "American archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing" , a rephrasing of Frederic William Maitland's...
movement. South's major contributions to archaeology deal in helping to legitimize it as a more scientific endeavor.