Essay: The assignment is to write a critical review of Struever's Koster. The book is an example of Processual Archaeology. The main question for your review is: What are the major characteristics of processual archaeology? Use Koster to provide examples of these characteristics.

1) Your essay should include Struever's question/problem for the Lower Illinois research program.

2) How does Struever's notion of culture influence his research?

2) A discussion of Struever's research design. How did he plan to address the problem?

3) What methods did he use? How did these methods collect and organize the archaeological data?

4) What conclusions/answers did Struever reach?

5) Does the logic and evidence support his conclusions?