ABSTRACT
One of the most exciting and overwhelming aspects of the study of culture history for archaeologists is that it is, in general, our exclusive workshop. Documents quite often present a biased story of the way people wanted things to be, or thought they were, rather than the way they really were. The hunting and gathering people of today, the very few who are left, are living on the fringes of the "valuable" world -- the out-back of Australia, the Kalihari Desert, the Arctic, the jungles of the Philippines, the Congo -- and they are disappearing fast. Within the approach, archaeologists make a serious effort to look at all aspects of a group of people and their interaction with their environment. Through such studies they aim to ultimately deal with the factors causing cultural change. Archaeologists who want to knew about past cultures in the complete sense must look at the whole range of archaeological sites from small to very large.
