ABSTRACT
Phenomenology is the study of subjective human experience. Much archaeology that uses a phenomenological approach is done at the scale of culturally formed landscapes in order to work out how people in the past experienced these big artifacts. Several early phenomenological studies were done of massive European Neolithic monuments of rock and earth. Phenomenology can be problem-oriented in the same way as conventional archaeology. How Tilley figures out the design and the effectiveness of this priestly choreography is an absorbing and masterful example of phenomenology in action. At the end of the day, the problem many people have with phenomenology knows how to evaluate its results. To judge the validity of conventional science by examining the data and how they are analyzed. But if two people looked at the same landscape and came up with different interpretations it might be hard to know which one you should believe.
