Sébastien Plutniak
Biographic Data
| ID | 264712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sébastien Plutniak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sébastien |
| FAMILY NAME | Plutniak |
| SIGNATURE | PLUTNIAK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6674-3806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Un archipel de données ouvertes, une carte pour s’y orienter
Fondé sur une enquête ethnographique menée dans trois villages kanak de la province Nord, cet article analyse les usages contemporains du feu en milieu kanak ainsi que les représentations qui leur sont associées. Dans un premier temps, il distingue deux grandes catégories de pratiques : le brûlis agricole, encore largement mobilisé pour la préparation des cultures, et l’usage du « feu courant » pour l’entretien des paysages, en soutien à l’aménag…
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by Piraye Hacgzeller (2025) is a contribution to a forthcoming volume on the role of typology and type-thinking in current archaeological theory and praxis.This volume is edited by the recommenders, and Hacgzeller's contribution is recommended based on two independent expert evaluations.A GIS specialist in archaeology, Hacgzeller offers a range of critical reflections on categorization and representation of archaeological space.She illustrates ho…
The “Beast Within” – Querying the (Cultural Evolutionary) Status of Types in Archaeology
is a welcome contribution to our upcoming edited volume on type-thinking and the uses and misuses of archaeological typologies.Questions of type-delineation and classification of archaeological materials have recently re-emerged as key arenas of scholarly attention and interrogation (2-4), as many researchers have turned to a matured field of cultural evolutionary studies (5-7) and as fine-grained archaeological data and novel computational-quant…
Abstract and Concrete – Querying the Metaphysics and Geometry of Pottery Classification
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Humans, machines, and the classification of Celtic coinage – the ClaReNet project
A recommendation of: Chrisowalandis Deligio, Caroline von Nicolai, Markus Möller, Katja Rösler, Julia Tietz, Robin Krause, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Karsten Tolle, David Wigg-Wolf IT- and machine learning-based methods of classification: The cooperative project ClaReNet – Classification and Representation for Networks https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7341342
Using insights from psychology and primatology to reconsider function in lithic typologies
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The Postmodern Predicament of Type-Thinking in Archaeology
Hypercultural types: archaeological objects in fast times
Roster and Lexicon – A Radical Digital-Dialogical Approach to Questions of Typology and Categorization in Archaeology
A recommendation of: Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati The Density of Types and the Dignity of the Fragment. A Website Approach to Archaeological Typology. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7743834
Automation and Novelty –Archaeocomputational Typo-Praxis in the Wake of the Third Science Revolution
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Revitalising archaeological corpus publications through digitisation – the Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum and the Conspectus Formarum Terrae Sigillatae Modo Confectae as exempla…
A recommendation of: Auth. Frederic; Rösler, Katja; Domscheit, Wenke; Hofmann, Kerstin P. From paper to byte: An interim report on the digital transformation of two thing editions https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7304578
Cultural taxonomic systems and the Late Palaeolithic/Later Stone Age prehistory of the Nile Valley – a critical review
This paper offers a detailed reconstruction of the history of research about the Late Palaeolithic in the Nile Valley, emphasizing the limitations of the approaches that have been used in the past while highlighting the research potential on the topic.The focus is on the Late Paleolithic studies, beginning from the end of '800 to the present day.One of the main biases identified is that the study of the Late Palaeolithic of the Nile Valley was ba…
Complexity and Purpose – A Pragmatic Approach to the Diversity of Archaeological Classificatory Practice and Typology
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Anarchisme et archéologie, au passé et au présent
« Si je le savais, je ne demanderais pas de pognon pour faire le job ! »
Science et anarchie
Seahors
This paper presents SEAHORS, an R shiny application available as an R package, dedicated to the intra-site spatial analysis of piece-plotted archaeological remains. This open-source script generates 2D and 3D scatter and density plots for archaeological objects located with cartesian coordinates. Many different GIS software already exist for this, but they mostly require specific skills and training to be used and are rarely designed for the part…
Breaking Free from Field Layers
In order to track diachronic changes in archaeological sequences, researchers typically partition time into stratigraphic layers defined during fieldwork, which serve as the framework for ensuing analyses. These analytical units have a significant impact on archaeological inference, defining its resolution, and influencing both the study of cultural assemblages and the reconstruction of past environments. However, field layers are seldom re-evalu…
Harassment, assault, bullying and intimidation (Habi) in archaeology
Awareness of, and debate about, harassment, assault, bullying and intimidation (HABI) in archaeology has grown in recent years, but the issue remains under-researched. Here, the authors present the first Europe-wide survey to evaluate HABI in archaeological environments, from field to laboratory and classroom. The survey covers 18 forms of HABI, collecting more than 1000 responses from archaeologists of 49 nationalities. A total of 82 per cent of…
What Makes the Identity of a Scientific Method? A History of the “Structural and Analytical Typology” in the Growth of Evolutionary and Digital Archaeology in Southwestern Europe (1950s–2000s)
The strength of parthood ties. Modelling spatial units and fragmented objects with the TSAR method — Topological Study of Archaeological Refitting
Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior
Since 1909, patrol officers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and others have identified evidence of a pre-contact trading network linking New Guinea with the Torres Strait. Current research in the Lower Sepik River Basin reported various ethnographic descriptions relating to cultural material objects stenciled on various rock art sites in Auwim, Upper Karawari-Arafundi region, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (PNG). In addition to the rock art, the …
The effects of publishing processes on scientific thought
Argument In the last decades, many changes have occurred in scientific publishing, including online publication, data repositories, file formats and standards. The role played by computers in this process rekindled the argument on forms of technical determinism. This paper addresses this old debate by exploring the case of publishing processes in prehistoric archaeology during the second part of the twentieth century, prior to the wide-scale adop…
La transparence des institutions
Cet article identifie deux programmes d'extension disciplinaire en sciences sociales, fondés sur une redéfinition du statut accordé aux objets : en sociologie, en niant la distinction entre humain et non-humain ; en archéologie, en introduisant le concept d'« objet-mémoire », qui intègre l'interaction sociale et les processus mémoriels. Leur discussion est menée à partir d'une ethnographie des contenants usuels d'un laboratoire de biologie. Les m…
Prehistoric occupation at the rock shelter of Liang Abu, eastern Borneo
Reliquats en devenir
L’activité d’un laboratoire de physique est abordée au travers des pratiques documentaires qui y sont observées. Nous empruntons à l’archéologie la notion de taphonomie. Celle-ci permet d’interroger la dynamique des agrégats documentaires et leur persistance au-delà de leur fonction dans les processus de conception scientifique. Ainsi analysés, ces documents nous renseignent sur les façons dont l’historicité des pratiques informe l’action présent…
Esquisse d’une réflexion sociologique sur le patrimoine scientifique et technique
Cet article se propose comme une contribution à une sociologie du patrimoine scientifique et technique. À partir d’une publication récente sur le sujet, il opérationnalise un triplet conceptuel tiré du répertoire sociologique. Ce patrimoine est analysé en tant que territoire professionnel concurrentiel (Abbott), aux frontières faisant l’objet d’un incessant travail de définition (Gieryn), dont l’enjeu revient à la captation d’un capital symboliqu…
New ceramic data from East Kalimantan
Archaeological research in the Liang Abu rock shelter (East Kalimantan) led to the discovery and analysis of a pottery assemblage, including red-slipped, cord-marked and incised pottery sherds, radiocarbon dated to 1672±21 BP and 1524±22 BP. In order to discuss our findings we undertook a reappraisal of the pottery material and associated radiocarbon datations from archaeological sites on Borneo Island. This provided us with an appropriate framew…
Borneo as a half empty pot
La transparence des institutions
Cet article identifie deux programmes d'extension disciplinaire en sciences sociales, fondés sur une redéfinition du statut accordé aux objets : en sociologie, en niant la distinction entre humain et non-humain ; en archéologie, en introduisant le concept d'« objet-mémoire », qui intègre l'interaction sociale et les processus mémoriels. Leur discussion est menée à partir d'une ethnographie des contenants usuels d'un laboratoire de biologie. Les m…
Is an archaeological contribution to the theory of social science possible
The issue of the definition and position of archaeology as a discipline is examined in relation to the dispute which took place from 1980 to 2009 between the archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin and the sociologist Jean-Claude Passeron. This case study enables us to explore the actual conceptual relationships between archaeology and the other sciences (as opposed to those wished for or prescribed). The contrasts between the positions declared by the …
Une contribution archéologique à la théorie des sciences sociales est-elle possible
Le problème de la définition et de la situation disciplinaires de l’archéologie est abordé à partir de la controverse ayant opposé, entre 1980 et 2009, l’archéologue Jean-Claude Gardin et le sociologue Jean-Claude Passeron. Ce cas permet d’étudier les rapports conceptuels effectifs (et non ceux souhaités ou prescrits) entre l’archéologie et les autres sciences. Les contrastes entre les positionnements déclarés par les deux acteurs et l’ancrage di…
L’innovation méthodologique, entre bifurcation personnelle et formation des disciplines
Quelles raisons peuvent amener des chercheurs à plaider en faveur de l’introduction de méthodes jugées plus précises et systématiques mais se révélant aussi plus abstraites et contraignantes en pratique ? La question est examinée à partir des parcours de deux archéologues français, Georges Laplace et Jean-Claude Gardin qui, dès les années 1950, se distinguent par leurs propositions méthodologiques fondées sur la formalisation ou le calcul. Celles…
Si le roi savait
Éditer une revue de sciences humaines et sociales artisanale relève d’un engagement intellectuel et professionnel particulier. Alors que les injonctions à une certaine professionnalisation – bureaucratique, normalisatrice, tue-l’amour de la science – des équipes et comités de rédaction redoublent d’intensité, les membres de Zilsel se retrouvent dans une pratique éditoriale joyeusement attachée aux normes les plus élémentaires de l’ethos scientifi…
A co-authorship network analysis of national and international growth in prehistoric archaeology, Italy (1875‐2000)
This paper examines the national and international growth of prehistoric archaeology in Italy from 1875 to 2000. A bibliometric approach is proposed for a case study of a scientific discipline, language and period that are poorly represented in current bibliographic databases. These constraints led to the generation of a data set with articles from 5 journals (2842 articles and 1221 unique authors). Publication language and author nationalities w…
Les vertus des études des sciences
En 1995, Anick Coudart et Laurent Olivier expliquaient la réception française du postmodernisme en archéologie à partir de l’idée que les pratiques scientifiques sont déterminées par des mentalités nationales. Cette idée, fréquente depuis le xixe siècle, a été réinvestie cette dernière décennie en histoire et en sociologie des sciences. Appuyé sur ces travaux, cet article renouvelle l’analyse des développements « théoriques » en archéologie. Les …
Quinze ans de théorie et de méthodologie archéologiques francophones
Les problèmes de standardisation et de communication de l’information archéologique ont été soulevés avant l’actuelle « ère numérique ». Entre 1972 à 1987, ils intéressèrent les auteurs de la revue Dialektikê. Cet article expose les choix techniques adoptés pour la diffusion d’une version numérique de cette revue. Sa redécouverte contribue à l’histoire récente de l’archéologie en France, à propos de ses rapports avec les approches anglophones, et…
The Professionalisation of Science – Claim and Refusal
The majority of analyses investigating the professionalization of scientific domains tend to assume the linear and general features of this transformation. These studies focus on the shift from a non-professionalized state to a professionalized state. This dual approach, however, crucially lacks some other aspects of the process of professionalization. This issue is discussed within the context of the growth of prehistoric archaeology in France f…
La diffusion numérique de la revue Dialektikê, Cahiers de typologie analytique (1972-1987)
Sébastien Plutniak. La diffusion numérique de la revue Dialektikê. Cahiers de typologie analytique (1972-1987) : quinze années de création méthodologique et conceptuelle en archéologie préhistorique. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française , Société Préhistorique Française, 2019, 116 (2), p. 365-368. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02183310
De l’usage des science studies dans les controverses scientifiques
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Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior
Since 1909, patrol officers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and others have identified evidence of a pre-contact trading network linking New Guinea with the Torres Strait. Current research in the Lower Sepik River Basin reported various ethnographic descriptions relating to cultural material objects stenciled on various rock art sites in Auwim, Upper Karawari-Arafundi region, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (PNG). In addition to the rock art, the …
The effects of publishing processes on scientific thought
Argument In the last decades, many changes have occurred in scientific publishing, including online publication, data repositories, file formats and standards. The role played by computers in this process rekindled the argument on forms of technical determinism. This paper addresses this old debate by exploring the case of publishing processes in prehistoric archaeology during the second part of the twentieth century, prior to the wide-scale adop…
Abstraction in Archaeological Stratigraphy
Methodological innovations have a special status in disciplinary histories, because they can be widely adopted and anonymised. In the 1950s, this occurred to Georges Laplace’s innovative use of 3-dimensional metric Cartesian coordinate system to record the positions of archaeological objects. This paper proposes a conceptual and social history of this process, with a focus on its spatial context, the Pyrenean region (Spain, Basque Country, and Fr…
The strength of parthood ties. Modelling spatial units and fragmented objects with the TSAR method – Topological Study of Archaeological Refitting
Refitting and conjoinable pieces have long been used in archaeology to assess the consistency of discrete spatial units, such as layers, and to evaluate disturbance and post-depositional processes. The majority of current methods, despite their differences, rely on the count and proportion of refits within and between spatial units. Little attention is paid to the distribution and topology of the relationships between fragments, although this is …
Assyrian merchants meet nuclear physicists
Community detection is a major issue in network analysis. This paper combines a socio-historical approach with an experimental reconstruction of programs to investigate the early automation of clique detection algorithms, which remains one of the unsolved NP-complete problems today. The research led by the archaeologist Jean-Claude Gardin from the 1950s on non-numerical information and graph analysis is retraced to demonstrate the early contribut…
The strength of parthood ties. Modelling spatial units and fragmented objects with the TSAR method — Topological Study of Archaeological Refitting
What Makes the Identity of a Scientific Method? A History of the “Structural and Analytical Typology” in the Growth of Evolutionary and Digital Archaeology in Southwestern Europe (1950s–2000s)
Mainland-coastal interactions in East Borneo
In recent decades, East Borneo has become an increasingly important archaeological “hot-spot” in Island Southeast Asia as a result of early dates for rock art ca. 38,000 BP and the greater number of excavated sites that support a much longer period of human occupation. However, the chronology of settlement and adaptation to environmental changes during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition is still poorly known. Here we report on an excavation at t…
L’analyse topologique des remontages archéologiques
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Archaeology (25 works) · History (19 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 works) · Humanities (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (13 works)