Logicism
A French view of archaeological theory founded in computational perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3350000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alain Gallay (University of Geneva, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 238 |
| Pages | 27-39 |
| Publication date | 1989-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00075554 |
| OpenAlex | W2464042381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 4 |
Theory in archaelogy has largely been an anglophone enterprise, and perhaps too inbred for its own good. The main French school, known particularly from the work of Alain Gallay and Jean-Claude Gardin, was well represented at a CNRS-NSF conference on 'Symbolic, structural and semiotic approaches in archaeology', held at Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) in October 1987, where a small group of American, British, French and Swiss archaeologists met to confront their theoretical views. Here Alain Gallay sets out the fundamentals of the 'logicist' position
Art · Art history · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Semiotics · Sociology · Visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classics · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · History · Philosophy
Philosophy of archaeology
Jean-Claude Gardin on Archaeological Data, Representation and Knowledge
Introduction to Discontinuities and Continuities
Current Issues in Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology
Accidents of History
Changing perceptions of West Africa's past
Signs of prehistory. A Peircian semiotic approach to lithics
Foreign countries
Integrating ethnoarchaeology
Changing perspectives on hunter-gatherers in Continental and in Anglo-American archaeology
The nature of archaeological arguments
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2023 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |