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posted by [personal profile] elanya at 01:55pm on 06/05/2005
I am reading Stanley South's Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology. Okay, the guys makes some good points, I don't agree with 8everything* he says, but whatever. I just felt I had to mention *something* about his *bizzare* anologies and diagrams. like The Polearm of Arcaheological theory o_O And 'Fishing in the sea of fact'. Which is a picture of water, with some fish in in marked 'sites' 'features' 'artifacts' and so on, with a guyy in a boat with a fishing line labelled 'armchair archaeologists', a little submarine with a periscore up for 'blind empiricists', and a series of happy leaping dolphins for 'Theory', 'Deduction' 'Prediction' etc.

o_O Well, it was the seventies....
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posted by [identity profile] ladyiolanthe.livejournal.com at 06:24pm on 06/05/2005
Is the guy in the boat smoking anything?
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 06:27pm on 06/05/2005
Strange how in the 70s, all the prehistoric archaeologists were hard-core processualists / positivists while the historic people were a bunch of freakin' hippies! Oh wait ... maybe not that much has changed, ya freakin' hippie! ;P
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 06:38pm on 06/05/2005
South isn't a hippy. I actually think you would like some of what he is saying, about theory being a tool, and about science being about the way you try to understand things rather than about the specific answers/method, etc. Very big into empirical laws,, and what he calls the nomotehtic paradigm of scientific archaeology. He likes patterns. A lot. Pretty much, that is what he is known for... Patterns, and the mean ceramic date formula.

Well, he is a hippy in the sense that he was probably smoking something when he came up with those analogies, I suppose o_O There is another one that is a drawing of a giant snail...
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posted by [identity profile] fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com at 07:35pm on 06/05/2005
Maybe he really liked doodling?
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