Ethnoarchaeology: A Non Historical Science of Reference Necessary for Interpreting the Past
Ethnoarchaeology: A Non Historical Science of Reference Necessary for Interpreting the Past
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民族考古学：解释过去所必需的非历史参考科学
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2007
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V. Roux
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作者：
V. Roux
民族考古学现在看来是一个很不明确的领域。然而，如果它注重于有充分根据的跨文化相关性，将物质文化与静态和动态现象联系起来，它就可能成为解释过去的真实的参考科学。为此目的，必须从解释机制的角度来研究这种相关性。跨文化相关性对应于解释机制调用共性的那些假设。这些共性可以通过参考在它们相关的不同学科中发现的理论来研究，这些理论位于考古学领域之外。在技术领域，跨文化关联涵盖了广泛的静态和动态现象。他们允许考古学家解释考古事实，不一定有类比，在当地的历史场景以及文化演变方面。在这方面，它表明，民族考古学，当遵循适当的方法，并专注于普遍性的基础上的多样性考古事实，确实提供了参考数据需要爬上金字塔的推论，使我们的解释性结构。
Ethnoarchaeology appears nowadays as a poorly formulated field. However, it could become a real science of reference for interpreting the past if it was focused upon well-founded cross-cultural correlates, linking material culture with static and dynamic phenomena. For this purpose, such correlates have to be studied in terms of explanatory mechanisms. Cross-cultural correlates correspond to those regularities where explanatory mechanisms invoke universals. These universals can be studied by reference to the theories found in the different disciplines they relate to and which are situated outside of the domain of archaeology. In the domain of technology, cross-cultural correlates cover a wide range of static and dynamic phenomena. They allow the archaeologist to interpret archaeological facts—for which there is not necessarily analogue—in terms of local historical scenario as well as cultural evolution. In this respect, it is shown that ethnoarchaeology, when following appropriate methodologies and focussing on the universals that underlie the diversity of archaeological facts, does provide the reference data needed to climb up in the pyramid of inferences that make up our interpretative constructs.