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An archaeological culture is a recurring collection of artifacts, structures, and monuments from a particular time and place that may be considered the material culture remains of a specific past society. Archaeologists typically attempt to define and map archaeological cultures based on both empirical evidence and their own understandings and interpretations. Archaeological cultures represent broad geographic zones where archaeologists believe people lived in similar ways and were connected through a history of interaction. The concept of archaeological cultures is one of the fundamental underpinnings of culture-historical archaeology, a distinct theory of archaeology based on the premise of using material culture to identify distinct ethnic and cultural groupings. Dating back to the late nineteenth century, when it was first developed by German archaeologists, culture-historical archaeology largely fell out of favor in the twentieth century with the rise of processual archaeology.