Experimentation and Interpretation

Released on by Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference
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  • Experimentation and Interpretation Book Detail

  • Author : Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference
  • Release Date : 2011
  • Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9781842173992
  • File Size : 78,78 MB
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Experimentation and Interpretation by Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference PDF Summary

Book Description: Experimental archaeology is today forging new links between archaeological scientists and theorists. Many of the best archaeological projects today are those which use methodology and interpretation from both the sciences and the arts. The papers presented here reflect this interdisciplinary approach and focus on sites and material culture spanning from the Mesolithic to the Late Medieval periods. They range from the history of experimentation in archaeology and its place within the field today, to the theory behind `the experiment', to several projects which have used controlled experimentation to test hypotheses about archaeological remains, past actions, and the scientific processes we use. Now that archaeology has moved beyond the focus of the Processual/Post-Processual debates of the 1970s and 80s, which pitted science against the arts, archaeologists have more freedom to choose how to `do archaeology'. The contributions to this book reflect this as problems are approached in --

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