Binford was influenced by Leslie White, a cultural evolutionist, and an anthropologist. This influence was primarily in the shifting focus from the old unilineal view of change or evolution to multilinear evolution. Many paths and tempos of change and development. In other words culture was out side of humans. We adjust to the environment natural and cultural, the environment is the driving force that puts constraints on people, directs cultural change.
Archaeology is an objective science.
Big picture trends were studied for large sweeping explanations. The origins of agriculture, rise of states, the most high status to study. Archaeology's goals were a fully-developed explanatory science, seeking the laws of human behavior, and generalizations about human adaptation. Theories-Humans will efficiently gather food. Gathering and Testing evidence for trajectory of human activities, i.e. rise of states like Childe, domestication, economics, trade, Interactions.