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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology

2019
Many causes have been proposed for the transition to agriculture but how can archaeologists debate rival interpretations of the record with a seat-of-your-pants theoretical methodology? Truth is a concept that has been the subject of considerable thought and analysis by philosophers for millennia and is a conceptual resource that archaeologists can ...
M. Boddington
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Archaeology and cognitive evolution

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2002
Archaeology can provide two bodies of information relevant to the understanding of the evolution of human cognition – the timing of developments, and the evolutionary context of these developments. The challenge is methodological. Archaeology must document attributes that have direct implications for underlying cognitive mechanisms. One example of such
Thomas Wynn
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An Archaeology of Socialism

, 2021
Revolution and the restructuring of the material world Soviet hygiene and the battle against dirt and petit-bourgeois consciousness the Narkomfin Communal House and the material culture of socialism Stalinism and the domestication of Marxism the ...
V. Buchli
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Gender Archaeology

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, 2021
This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender.
M. Sørensen
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Experimental Archaeology

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, 2021
Experimental archaeology is a multifaceted approach employed by a wide and rapidly expanding range of exponents including everybody from lab-based archaeological research scientists through to museum professionals and re-enactment groups.
Christopher Busuttil
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The dispossession of the San Pedro de Inacaliri river: Political Ecology, extractivism and archaeology

The Extractive Industries and Society, 2019
Copper mining and other extractive industries in the Atacama Desert have exerted pressure on water resources, with dramatic socio-environmental effects.
M. Prieto   +2 more
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The importance of fine-scale studies for integrating paleogenomics and archaeology.

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 2018
There has been an undercurrent of intellectual tension between geneticists studying human population history and archaeologists for almost 40 years.
K. Veeramah
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Slow Archaeology, Punk Archaeology, and the ‘Archaeology of Care’

European Journal of Archaeology, 2019
This article considers the impact of both historical and digital transhuman practices in archaeology with an eye towards recent conversations concerning punk archaeology, slow archaeology, and an ‘archaeology of care’. Drawing on Ivan Illich, Jacques Ellul, and Gilles Deleuze, the article suggests that current trends in digital practices risk ...
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The Archaeology of Southern Africa


Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition.
P. Mitchell
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