Archaeology and the American Historian
An Interdisciplinary Challenge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2731482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul W Wilderson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115 |
| Publication date | 1975-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2712337 |
| OpenAlex | W2318451297 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
involved in restricting themselves to written records, have become more critical of their sources. In order to make up for deficiencies in traditional documentation and to gain new perspectives, they have looked to new methods such as quantification and different disciplines such as sociology, psychology, and anthropology. A field that has been less readily adopted is archaeology.' Few American historians are familiar with the theories and techniques of archaeology or, more importantly, with the kind of information archaeology can offer them. This is unfortunate, for archaeology can be valuable in filling lacunae left by incomplete records, for corroborating or disputing what is known from those records, and at times providing whole new ways of viewing historical questions. Archaeology, like history, can be considered the study of man and the past, although it differs from history in that it deals primarily with material rather than written remains. As one archaeologist has stated, . . the archaeologist gives way to the historian as written records grow more nu
Archaeology · Art · Sociology · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2010 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |