Inference in Archaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2565482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard A Watson (0000-0002-2521-8255, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1976 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-66 |
| Publication date | 1976-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/279041 |
| OpenAlex | W2322700233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 13 |
The science of archaeology is based on a multi-leveled interdisciplinary system of descriptions, laws, and explanations. Archaeologists try to provide systemic descriptions and to confirm hypotheses about past social structures on the assumption that they are represented by selected parts of extant material remains. Inferences are about and based on processes and relations among social structure, material culture, and its unaltered, altered, and selected remains. Archaeological inference depends on principles of cultural behavior, the accumulation and alteration of material, and archaeologists' methods. These physico-chemical, geological, biological, psychological, sociological, anthropological, and methodological principles derive from the present behavior of men and material
Archaeology · Biology · Epistemology · Evolutionary biology · Extant taxon · Inference · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Is There an Archaeological Record?
Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia
Reckonings
A Retrospective Review of Richard A. Gould's Living Archaeology
Middle-Range Theory in Archaeology
Use-Trace Epistemology and the Logic of Inference
Processual archaeology
Ozymandias, King of Kings
Questions of Evidence, Legitimacy, and the (Dis)Unity of Science
The Golden Marshalltown
Laws, Systems, Certainty, and Particularities
Some Issues in the Philosophy of Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2022 (47) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |