Processual archaeology's a form of archaeological theory which arguably had its genesis in 1958 with Willey and Phillips' work, Method and Theory in American Archeology in which the pair stated that "American archeology's anthropology or it's nothing" (Willey and Phillips, 1958:2), a rephrasing of Frederic William Maitland's comment that "[m]y own belief's that by and by anthropology will have the choice between being history and being nothing." This idea implied that the goals of archaeology we… (More on Processualism)