PROCESSUAL APPROACH TO CULTURAL TYPES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: PROBLEM STATEMENT
The author studies the history of things cultural types as processes, formulates the difference between the cultural processes of types development and the activity-related processes of artifacts production and use, sets the task to research and describe the types stages-conditions in the cycle of transmission in local social groups cultures and suggests that the formalization and ontological characteristics description of the involved types development cultural mechanisms for archeology should perform the function of the epistemological legitimacy of research.