Abstract:
The appearance of Postprocessualism and the fragmentation of archaeology into a variety of subfields are two symptoms of a serious crisis in the discipline generated by the recognition that archaeology has not achieved its century and a half old goal of becoming scientific. The existence of archaeology itself may well hang in the balance. I assess the reasons why archaeology has failed to achieve its scientific aspirations and assay the feasibility of the goal itself A scientific archaeology is possible, but not near at hand nor will it closely (...)
The appearance of Postprocessualism and the fragmentation of archaeology into a variety of subfields are two symptoms of a serious crisis in the discipline generated by the recognition that archaeology has not achieved its century and a half old goal of becoming scientific. The existence of archaeology itself may well hang in the balance. I assess the reasons why archaeology has failed to achieve its scientific aspirations and assay the feasibility of the goal itself A scientific archaeology is possible, but not near at hand nor will it closely resemble existing sciences or the visions of most New Archaeologists. (Read More)
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