A branch of archaeology based on the assumption that codes and rules, beliefs and symbolic concepts, produce human culture systems. It is a research perspective that views culture as the shared symbolic structures that are cumulative creations of the mind and is closely related to postprocessual archaeology. The objective of structural analysis is to discover the basic principles of the human mind as reflected in myth, art, kinship, and language. Structural archaeology is concerned with how people manipulate the meaning of material culture, embedded in structural codes, to make new meanings and statements.