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Environment, Subsistence, and Society: The Changing Archaeological Perspective
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The first person to consider Stonehenge and Avebury in archaeological perspective was John Aubrey (1626-97) as discussed by the authors, who considered the three subjects of environment, subsistence, and society as the domain of at least one discipline.Abstract:
It is a cliche to begin a review article by acknowledging that the subject is too large to be examined in any comprehensive manner. Environment, subsistence, and society are each the domain of at least one discipline. Environment is considered to be the proper subject for ecologists, biologists, geologists, and geographers; subsistence is the domain of economists, nutritionists, and various agricultural specialists; society is studied by anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, to name only a few. Yet some men have attempted to relate the three subjects into an analytical framework. Few men have been as concise and yet been able to maintain as consistent a world view on this subject as John Aubrey (1626-97), the first person to consider Stonehenge and Avebury in archaeological perspective. He stated:read more
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Social Theory and Archaeology.
TL;DR: Shanks and Tilley as discussed by the authors argue against the functionalism and positivism which result from an inadequate assimilation of social theory into the day-to-day practice of archaeology, and present a challenge to the traditional idea of the archaeologist as explorer or discoverer and the more recent emphasis on archaeology as behavioural science.
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Paradigms and the Nature of Change in American Archaeology
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in the field of archaeology has been criticised, with a focus on the varying interpretations of the paradigmatic state of the discipline.
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Ethno-Archaeological Investigations in Futuna and Uvea (Western Polynesia): a Preliminary Report
TL;DR: In the late 1950s, stratigraphie archaeology in Samoa and Tonga established a time depth for cultural adaptation and change in Western Polynesia of two or more millennia; recent linguistic studies have elaborated this archaeological picture as discussed by the authors.
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6 – Quantifying Archaeological Research
TL;DR: A survey of current thinking in archaeological method and theory can be found in this article, which highlights the widespread concern with quantification in general and with the adoption of statistical modes of analysis.
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Changing Aims of Americanist Archaeology: A Citations Analysis of American Antiquity. 1946-1975
TL;DR: A study of changes in research orientations in Americanist archaeology can be found in this article, where several trends recognizable in citations from American Antiquity are indicated, especially those studies that deal with processual issues.
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TL;DR: The Discovery of Grounded Theory as mentioned in this paper is a book about the discovery of grounded theories from data, both substantive and formal, which is a major task confronting sociologists and is understandable to both experts and laymen.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
The structure of scientific revolutions
TL;DR: The structure of scientific revolutions (1962) / Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1922-1996) is a book about the history of science and its discontents.