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Lewis R. Binford

American archaeologist
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Lewis Roberts Binford
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Nov. 21, 1931, Norfolk, Va., U.S.
Died:
April 11, 2011, Kirksville, Mo. (aged 79)
Subjects Of Study:
Mousterian industry
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Lewis R. Binford (born Nov. 21, 1931, Norfolk, Va., U.S.—died April 11, 2011, Kirksville, Mo.) was an American archaeologist. Binford taught principally at the University of New Mexico (1968–91) and later at Southern Methodist University (1991–2003). In the mid-1960s, he initiated what came to be known as the “New Archaeology,” which champions the use of quantitative methods and the practice of archaeology as a rigorous science. He applied the new methodology in an influential study of Mousterian artifacts and later extended it to a study of the hunting activities of a living people, the Nunamiut, trying to draw analogies to prehistoric contexts.

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