Section 1. Conventions of field practice 1. Repeating the unrepeatable experiment 2. Experimental Archaeology at the crossroads: A contribution to interpretation or evidence of ‘xeroxing’? 3. Working Archives: Mucking, Great Wilbraham and the chimera of ‘Total Archaeology’ 4. Excavation as debate Section 2. Recording conventions: Typological and stratigraphic units 5. ‘Proportional representation’: Multiple voices in archaeological interpretation at Çatalhöyük 6. The tyranny of typologies: Nationality and evidential reasoning in Romano-Egyptian archaeology7. High-resolution ecological and social histories at Çatalhöyük: Eliciting evidence from microstratigraphy 8. Integrating database design and use into recording methodologies Section 3. Cross-field trade: Archaeological applications of external expertise and technologies 9. The Archaeological Bazaar: Anybody want to buy some science? 10. ‘The economics of archaeological science: Innovation, ring fences, calibration’ 11. The world around: Studying the emergence of structure in past landscapes 12. Crafting knowledge with (digital) visual media in archaeology Section 4. Multiple working hypotheses, strategies of elimination, and triangulation 13. Lessons from modeling Neolithic farming practice: methods of elimination 14. Uncertain on principle: Combining lines of archaeological evidence to create chronologies 15. A ‘mixed mass of facts’ 16. Archaeology and law: An initial exploration Section 5. Broader perspectives: Material culture as object and evidence 17. Meeting pasts halfway: A consideration of the ontology of archaeological material evidence 18. Matter and facts: Material culture in the history of science
Bob Chapman is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University
of Reading, UK. His research focuses on archaeological theory,
Mediterranean later prehistory, the development of human inequality
and the means by which this can be studied with archaeological
data. He has pursued these interests in fieldwork projects in
southeast Spain and the Balearic Islands, as well as in books such
as The Archaeology of Death (1981), Emerging Complexity (1990)
and Archaeologies of Complexity (2003). In recent years his
research has turned increasingly to the use of historical
materialism in archaeological interpretation, especially in
relation to inequality and human exploitation. Running through this
research activity has been a strong concern for the nature of
archaeological interpretation, working with the complementary
evidence of how people lived (e.g. what they produced, exchanged
and consumed, centred on settlement evidence) and how they were
treated in death (e.g. their disposal, centred on burial
evidence).
Alison Wylie is Professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the
University of Washington, and of Philosophy at Durham University.
She is a philosopher of the social and historical sciences who
works on questions about objectivity, evidence, and research ethics
raised by archaeological practice and by feminist research in the
social sciences. Her longstanding interest in evidential reasoning
is represented by Thinking from Things (2002) and by contributions
to Evidence, Inference and Enquiry (Dawid, Twining and Vasilaki,
2011), How Well do 'Facts' Travel? (Morgan, 2010), and Agnatology
(Proctor and Schiebinger, 2008). In recent work she focuses on the
role of contextual values in science and on how research can be
improved by internal diversity and by collaborations that extend
beyond the research community. These interests are reflected in
Value-free Science? (co-edited with Kincaid and Dupré, 2007) and
Epistemic Diversity and Dissent (edited for Episteme 2006), as well
as in essays on stewardship and feminist standpoint theory.
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