Author: Marcos Martinon-Torres Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315433559 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 218
Book Description
Using a combination of historical, archaeological, and scientific data is not an uncommon research practice. Rarely found, however, is a more overt critical consideration of how these sources of information relate to each other, or explicit attempts at developing successful strategies for interdisciplinary work. The authors in this volume provide such critical perspectives, examining materials from a wide range of cultures and time periods to demonstrate the added value of combining in their research seemingly incompatible or even contradictory sources. Case studies include explorations of the symbolism of flint knives in ancient Egypt, the meaning of cuneiform glass texts, medieval metallurgical traditions, and urban archaeology at industrial sites. This volume is noteworthy, as it offers novel contributions to specific topics, as well as fundamental reflections on the problems and potentials of the interdisciplinary study of the human past.
Author: Michael Brian Schiffer Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3319000772 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
This manual pulls together—and illustrates with interesting case studies—the variety of specialized and generalized archaeological research strategies that yield new insights into science. Throughout the book there are templates, consisting of questions, to help readers visualize and design their own projects. The manual seeks to be as general as possible, applicable to any society, and so science is defined as the creation of useful knowledge—the kinds of knowledge that enable people to make predictions. The chapters in Part I discuss the scope of the archaeology of science and furnish a conceptual foundation for the remainder of the book. Next, Part II presents several specialized, but widely practiced, research strategies that contribute to the archaeology of science. In order to thoroughly ground the manual in real-life applications, Part III presents lengthy case studies that feature the use of historical and archaeological evidence in the study of scientific activities.
Author: Alison Wylie Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520935403 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 357
Book Description
In this long-awaited compendium of new and newly revised essays, Alison Wylie explores how archaeologists know what they know. Examining the history and methodology of Anglo-American archaeology, Wylie puts the tumultuous debates of the last thirty years in historical and philosophical perspective.
Author: Bruce G. Trigger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Archaeology Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
"This monograph will examine certain general aspects of nature and orientation of prehistoric archaeology, paying particular attention to its relationship to the disciplines of history and anthropology. I do not intend merely to criticize views currently held by many of the most articulate and influential prehistoric archaeologists in the United States and increasingly elsewhere, but will offer what I hope will be convincing alternatives to these views. For historical reasons that will be made clear later, prehistoric archaeology has long been regarded in the United States almost exclusively as a branch of anthropology. This view has acquired even greater prominence as a result of the New Archaeology's desire to demonstrate that archaeological data are as useful as ethnographic ones for generalizing about human behaviour. Only recently have some United States archaeologists begun to question whether archaeology might not develop more satisfactorily if it did not seek to model its procedures exclusively upon those of ethnology or social anthropology (e.g. Meltzer 1979 :654; Kohl 1981; Leone 1982). This suggests that prehistoric archaeologists in the United States may be more receptive than they have been for some time to considering the value of archaeological orientations developed in other countries or alternative approaches to archaeology in their own."-- Introduction.
Author: Marcos Martinon-Torres
Author: R.J.C. Atkinson
Author: Gary Kenworthy
Author: Gary Gutting
Author: Michael Brian Schiffer
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Author: Alison Wylie
Author: Bruce G. Trigger