ABSTRACT
Archaeologists realized that cultural diversity was a feature of the past that could be related to the present. They also became aware that their narrow focus on artifacts material things hid much of social life in past for example, the roles expected of women, cultural differences between different ethnic groups, presence of social classes, and the lives of ordinary working people. Archaeologists wanting to be known as scientists tried to identify patterns of organization in the several types of economies they classified, that is, to discover laws of or regularities in the organization of basic diversity. Factoring diversity into an archaeological scenario not only furnishes alternate and enriching interpretations of data, it also points up taken for granted aspects. The crux of New Archaeology was its "hypothetico-deductive" procedure, wherein the archaeologist states a hypothesis and then seeks data to either confirm or negate the hypothesis. New Archaeologists had a box in their ubiquitous flow charts for "sexual division of labor".
