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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRecently, VanPool and VanPool (1999) propose that postprocessual archaeology can be construed as a scientific practice if archaeologists would simply adopt a "realistic view" of science. We argue that this "realistic...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 66, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed
POSTPROCESSUALISM AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE: A RESPONSE TO COMMENTS BY HUTSON AND ARNOLD AND WILKENS
The comments by Hutson and Arnold and Wilkens challenge our 1999 argument that postprocessual research can be scientific. Both critique our characteristics of science. Arnold and Wilkens contend that postprocessual... -
From:American Antiquity (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTheory in North American archaeology is characterized in terms of foci and approaches manifested in research issues, rather than in explicit or oppositional theoretical positions. While there are some clear-cut...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedArchaeology as a Process: Processualsim and Its Progeny. MICHAEL J. O'BRIEN, R. LEE LYMAN, and MICHAEL BRIAN SCHIFFER. 2005. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. ix + 350 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN-13...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedProcessual and postprocessual archaeologists implicitly employ the same epistemological system to evaluate the worth of different explanations: inference to the best explanation. This is good since inference to the best...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBlood residues have been microscopically and chemically detected on fluted projectile points from eastern Beringia. From these residues a variety of large mammal species, including mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), have...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEarly in the nineteenth century, geologist Charles Lyell reasoned that successively older faunas would contain progressively more extinct species and younger faunas relatively more extant species. The present, with...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn several recent, and highly provocative papers, McGuire and Hildebrandt (Hildebrandt and McGuire 2002, 2003; McGuire and Hildebrandt 2005) have helped introduce costly signaling theory into American archaeology. While...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe chronology of shell-tempered pottery in the eastern United States is poorly understood, preventing any resolution to the question of how this pottery came to dominate ceramic assemblages in the late prehistoric...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPhilip Phillips, an American archaeologist of great distinction and achievement, died at his home, in Bolton, Massachusetts, on December 11, 1994. Phillips was born in Buffalo, New York, on August 11, 1900, the son of...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 65, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe recent Science Wars have brought into sharp focus, in a public forum, contentious questions about the authority of science and what counts as properly scientific practice that have long structured archaeological...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 68, Issue 261) Peer-ReviewedA comparison of the Anglo-American and Continental approaches in archaeology is conducted to gain some insight into their regional differences. The comparison is made through the study of articles in scientific...
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From:Anthropology of the Middle East (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article addresses the relations between archaeology and social anthropology, as exemplified by archaeological research in the Middle East. It is argued that further integration between both disciplines, as well as...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe compatibility of processual and postprocessual archaeology has been heavily debated. This discussion is frequently phrased in terms of scientific vs. nonscientific/humanistic archaeology. We suggest that the...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 68, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Owasco culture is a critical taxon in William A. Ritchie's culture history of New York. In its final construction, Owasco was viewed by Ritchie as representing the onset of recognizable northern Iroquoian traits....
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 72, Issue 277) Peer-ReviewedAdvances in mainstream theories and methods in archaeology have not been evident in Brazilian archaeology given the immense size of the country, linguistic barriers, the lack of resources and the difficulty in working...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLatin American archaeology has been influenced by the world theoretical context, from which it has developed original approaches. Currently, a culture-history conceptual foundation still predominates in the region, with...
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From:Latin American Antiquity (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLatin American archaeology has been influenced by the world theoretical context, from which it has developed original approaches. Currently, a culture-history conceptual foundation still predominates in the region, with...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 71, Issue 22) Peer-ReviewedFor more than 40 years archaeologists have been engaged in a self-conscious appraisal of the factors influencing the development of archaeological theory. The importance of external social and political forces has been...
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From:Journal of the Southwest (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe authors discuss the role of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) in the study of Southeastern archaeology and ethnology between 1879 and 1932. The BAE organized the study of prehistory in the eastern United States,...