Wiktionary
processual
a. 1 Of or relating to a process, especially to the methodological study of processes in social science 2 Of or relating to the methodological study of cultural change and variability in archaeology
Usage examples of "processual".
Peabody, back at Yale, with the cream-colored walls and the polished dark-wood trim, and of the arguments among the graduate students sitting around the long table: whether processual archaeology was primarily historical or primarily archaeological, whether formalist criteria outweighed objectivist criteria, whether derivationist doctrine concealed normative commitment.