A return to the ‘Pompeii premise’

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20057069
AutoresTim Murray (0000-0003-3075-1393, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Páginas22-41
Fecha de publicación2004-01-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaTime and Archaeology (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203203019-5
OpenAlexW2893515266
ISBN9780203203019
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas1

The core of the chapter is an analysis of some responses to calls for time perspectivism in archaeology, and to the ‘Pompeii premise’ debate between Lewis Binford and Michael Schiffer which took place in the 1980s. Analysis of the very strong responses to both issues confirms that, underlying disputes about the measurement of time and the nature of archaeological phenomena, are serious divisions between archaeologists about the nature and purpose of archaeological knowledge. These disputes may not conform to a neat opposition between ‘processual’ and ‘postprocessual’ archaeologies, but neither do they allow alternative approaches (such as those seeking to re-describe and reinterpret archaeological phenomena as non-linear or dynamical systems) to escape unscathed (see e.g. Murray 1997)

Epistemology · Premise · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy