A History of Archaeological Thought
A History of Archaeological Thought
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DOI：
10.2307/530154
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发表时间：
1991-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
S. Piggott;B. Trigger
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作者：
S. Piggott;B. Trigger
考古学思想史是一门中级课程，旨在向学生介绍考古学理论的发展，从世纪早期的认识到遥远的过去可以仅仅根据考古记录重建到后来的发展，例如试图完全从物质遗迹中识别种族/语言群体。它将追溯考古学作为人类学中的一个子领域的出现，以及它与人类学理论更广泛发展的持续密切互动。本课程将强调内部社会演变和适应当地环境的观点与强调对偶然过去的多个观点的后现代反应进行对比。学生将被介绍到不同的理论方法来解释考古记录，如文化生态学和新进化过程考古学，身份和地点和景观考古学，马克思主义历史唯物主义和世界体系理论，以及所谓的符号/认知考古学。本课程回顾了解释过去的不同理论方法，强调积累考古发现及其解释和分析之间的积极互动。社会理论，最初制定的社会学和社会人类学，评估其充分理解考古学的物质文化记录。这些理论方法解释考古记录的适用性将被严格审查。
A History of Archaeological Thought is an intermediate level course intended to introduce students to the development of archaeological theory from the early 19 th century realization that the remote past could be reconstructed solely on the basis of the archaeological record to later developments, such as attempts to identify ethnic/linguistic groups exclusively from material remains. It will trace the emergence of archaeology as a sub-field within anthropology and its continuing close interaction with broader developments in anthropological theory. The course contrasts perspectives that emphasize internal social evolution and adaptation to local environmental settings with post-modern responses that stress multiple perspectives on a contingent past. Students will be introduced to different theoretical approaches to interpreting the archaeological record, such as cultural ecology and neo-evolutionary processual archaeology, archaeologies of identity and place and landscape, Marxist historical materialism and world systems theory, and so-called symbolic/cognitive archaeology. This course reviews different theoretical approaches for explaining the past, emphasizing the positive interaction between accumulating archaeological discoveries and their interpretation and analysis. Social theories, originally formulated in sociology and social anthropology, are evaluated for their adequacy in understanding the material culture record of archaeology. The suitability of these theoretical approaches for interpreting the archaeological record will be critically examined.