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Through out the years we have seen numerous salmagundis and evolution in the theories that make up archaeology. Archaeology was initially seen as a theatrical role of history or a historical study it focused in the main on the explication of the past, as well as gathering data to pock chronologies. However many archaeologists feel that archaeology should focus on the history of the past rather than the explication of it. The first transformation that was documented produced Processual Archaeology it evolved from the over-the-hill historical and antiquarian ways. Processual Archaeology was developed as a science, merely was still deemed as inadequate to archaeologists in the 1990s. Post processual archaeology is the turn out of the criticism that processual archaeology has faced. It emphasizes the subjectivity of archaeological interpretations. Processual archaeologists however believed heavily on the scientific order therefore the data the derived was almost always obje ctive. there is an obvious clash amid these two schools of thought, i being inbred the other being objective, its no wonder why there is a discrepancy between concepts such as culture. This research paper aims to test in detail, Lewis Binford and the processual method of culture construction and compare it with Ian Hodder and the game processual method. By doing so I expect to find a discrepancy between their concepts of culture and how but more importantly why this discrepancy exists.Processual archaeology attempts to treat archaeology as a science, we know this because the scientific method is used to make objective inferences about archaeological data. These Processualists believed that it was indeed workable to break past the limits of archaeological record, and actu... ...had social hierarchies and prestige.When comparing the ways in which post processual and processual archaeologists interpret artifacts we can see that post processual archaeologists make heathen infe rences using their own interpretations. Processualists however try to explain cultural change through environmental adaptations thus making objective inferences. According to post processual archaeology environmental determinism is one of processual archaeologys weaknesses along with a lack of charitable agency. It is clear that these two schools of thought have a lot they dissent on, and have their own views of how culture is constructed. Processual archaeology has allowed Ian Hodder to develop what we know nowadays as post processual archaeology. However, despite the differences among them one can agree that without one another archaeology would not be what it is today.