section_path: Academic sub-disciplines/Ethnoarchaeology
section_name: Ethnoarchaeology
paragraph_text: Ethnoarchaeology
  
  Ethnoarchaeology is the ethnographic study of living people, designed to aid in our interpretation of the archaeological record. The approach first gained prominence during the processual movement of the 1960s, and continues to be a vibrant component of post-processual and other current archaeological approaches. Early ethnoarchaeological research focused on hunter-gatherer or foraging societies; today ethnoarchaeological research encompasses a much wider range of human behaviour.