A Critique of Archaeological Reason

A Critique of Archaeological Reason
Title A Critique of Archaeological Reason PDF eBook
Author Giorgio Buccellati
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 411
Release 2017-04-24
Genre Science
ISBN 110704653X

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This book defines the concept of 'archaeological reason', and provides a new approach to archaeological excavations, philosophical hermeneutics, and digital theory.

A Critique of Archaeological Reason

A Critique of Archaeological Reason
Title A Critique of Archaeological Reason PDF eBook
Author Giorgio Buccellati
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 411
Release 2017-04-24
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1108165761

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In A Critique of Archaeological Reason, Giorgio Buccellati presents a theory of excavation that aims at clarifying the nature of archaeology and its impact on contemporary thought. Integrating epistemological issues with methods of data collection and the role and impact of digital technology on archaeological work, the book explores digital data in order to comprehend its role in shaping meaning and understanding in archaeological excavation. The ability of archaeologists to record in the field, rather than offsite, has fundamentally changed the methods of observation, conceptualization, and interpretation of deposits. Focusing on the role of stratigraphy as the center of archaeological field work, Giorgio Buccellati examines the challenges of interpreting a 'broken tradition'; a civilization for which there are no living carriers today. He uses the site of Urkesh in Syria, where he has worked for decades, as a case study to demonstrate his theory.

Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason

Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason
Title Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason PDF eBook
Author Gary Gutting
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 326
Release 1989-09-29
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521366984

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An introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of Michael Foucault.

Critique of Latin American Reason

Critique of Latin American Reason
Title Critique of Latin American Reason PDF eBook
Author Santiago Castro-Gómez
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 199
Release 2021-09-21
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0231553412

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Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory. Santiago Castro-Gómez argues that “Latin America” is not so much a geographical entity, a culture, or a place, but rather an object of knowledge produced by a family of discourses in the humanities that are inseparably linked to colonial power relationships. Using the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault, he analyzes the political, literary, and philosophical discourses and modes of power that have contributed to the making of “Latin America.” Castro-Gómez examines the views of a wide range of Latin American thinkers on modernity, postmodernity, identity, colonial history, and literature, also considering how these questions have intersected with popular culture. His critique spans Central and South America, and it also implicates broader and protracted global processes. This book presents this groundbreaking work of contemporary critical theory in English translation for the first time. It features a foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff, a new preface by the author, and an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta situating Castro-Gómez’s thought in the context of critical theory in Latin America and the Global South. Two appendixes feature an interview with Castro-Gómez that sheds light on the book’s composition and short provocations responding to each chapter from a multidisciplinary forum of contemporary scholars who resituate the work within a range of perspectives including feminist, Francophone African, and decolonial Black political thought.

America Before

America Before
Title America Before PDF eBook
Author Graham Hancock
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Pages 486
Release 2019-04-23
Genre Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN 1250153743

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The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago – amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago – many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"? America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.

Archaeology Yesterday and Today

Archaeology Yesterday and Today
Title Archaeology Yesterday and Today PDF eBook
Author Jaroslav Malina
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 340
Release 1990-11-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780521319775

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This book, first published in 1990, presents a radical interpretation by Czech philosophers of science of the philosophical, social and political forces shaping archaeology from antiquity onwards. It provides a theoretically sophisticated and cosmopolitan overview of modern archaeology, treating the history of both traditions in a single framework.

Microarchaeology

Microarchaeology
Title Microarchaeology PDF eBook
Author Stephen Weiner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages
Release 2010-02-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1139487310

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The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in the microscopic record can significantly add to our understanding of past human behaviour, provided this information has not been altered by the passage of time. Microarchaeology seeks to understand the microscopic record in terms of the type of information embedded in this record, the materials in which this information resides, and the conditions under which a reliable signal can be extracted. This book highlights the concepts needed to extract information from the microscopic record. Intended for all archaeologists and archaeological scientists, it will be of particular interest to students who have some background in the natural sciences as well as archaeology.