Culture history archaeology, prevalent in the early to mid-20th century, focused on charting changes in artifact styles over time and often attributed these changes to the movement of peoples or the spread of ideas.

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Culture History Is

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Culture history is:

A) the kind of archaeology practiced during Renaissance times, primarily focused on the reconstruction of classical civilizations.
B) a breakthrough in archaeological thought that rejected simple descriptions of cultural development through time for more comprehensive interpretations of past lifeways.
C) the kind of archaeology practiced during the early to mid-20th century, in which changes in artifact frequencies through time were explained by diffusion of ideas or migration of people.
D) the kind of archaeology most frequently practiced today by Americanist archaeologists.

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