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an approach that stresses meaning, agency, symbolism and the archaeologist's own interpretive position over general laws.

In archaeology, post-processual archaeology refers to an approach that stresses meaning, agency, symbolism and the archaeologist's own interpretive position over general laws. This meaning comes from Hodder (1985) in Advances in archaeological method and theory.[1]

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Hodder, I. (1985). Postprocessual archaeology. In M. B. Schiffer (Ed.), Advances in archaeological method and theory (pp. 1-26). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-003108-5.50006-3

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