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Archived from the original on 22 February Understanding the Archaeological Record. Piecing Together the Past: The Interpretation of Archaeological Data.

Review of Understanding the Archaeological Record by Gavin Lucas — Northwestern Scholars

The loss, breakage, and abandonment of implements and facilities at different locations, where groups of variable structure performed different tasks, leaves a "fossil" record of the actual operation of an extinct society. The Emergence of Civilisation: Much evidence for early trade has perished slaves, wine, wood, hides, opium, lichens even [ The range and volume of trade could thus have been far greater than the record now documents. An Explicitly Scientific Approach.

Although the humans themselves are long dead, their patterned behavior can be investigated by the hypothetico-deductive method of science because archaeological remains and their spatial interrelationships are empirically observable records of that patterning. The aim of this book is therefore to explain how archaeologists order their data to form a record and how they may try to interpret them as concrete embodiments of thoughts.

Sampling in Contemporary British Archaeology. BAR British Series In order to achieve this representative assessment [of the range of surviving archaeological traces] it is first necessary to appreciate the factors which cause variability in cultural systems e. Archaeology and Its Problems. Translated by Ruth Daniel. Pilaar 5 April Advances in Archaeological Practice.

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Book Review – Understanding the Archaeological Record, Gavin Lucas

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge common ground. In doing so, Lucas issues the Instead of exploring the relationship s between theories and practices by concentrating on some theoretical traditions, Lucas approaches the problem by concentrating on one of the most obvious connecting points between theory and practice, the archaeological record itself. Lucas acknowledges that it is somewhat prob- lematic to separate theory and practice in this sense but he has one very good reason to do so.

The theoretical discourse changes very rapidly, whereas the methodological tools in contrast remain somewhat unchanged p. Lucas does not want to reinvent a middle-range theory by targeting the relationship between the material archaeological record data and our explana- tions for the processes that produced that record theory. This is an updated version of the old interpretive dilemma which, I think, issues the problem from a somewhat neorealist point of view. For Lucas, the archaeological record According to Lucas, this problem has plagued remains constructed in the sense that there are archaeology since at least the s and is still countless different operations going on that affect with us today.

Lu- practices of science p. One example of this is the archaeology. A major part of Understanding the often-tedious case study in which no clear con- Archaeological Record is therefore comprised nection between the data presented and the theory of a historical review of how the archaeological employed can often be seen. The theory remains record has been understood throughout the history vacuous in respect to the data, and ultimately the of archaeology.

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Personally, I found this aspect one data and the theory remain incommensurable. The reason that led these archaeologists to simplistic and overarching generalizations, Lucas adopt such different archaeological attitudes was succeeds in showing the reader that some of our that whereas Pitt Rivers was mainly conducting most familiar historical narratives may not be excavations on prehistoric sites in Britain, Petrie accurate.

Needless to say, the Lucas begins by exploring how in the 19th amount of artefacts Pitt Rivers had to deal with in century the subject matter of archaeology included Britain was significantly smaller than that dug up not just material remains and artefacts but oral by Petrie in Egypt. The incompleteness of the archaeological is to keep the theory of archaeology deeply rooted record was not thought to be due to incompleteness in the material itself.

The idea was that as long During the first half of the 20th century the as archaeologists kept collecting data, it would understanding of the reasons behind the incom- eventually add up as a whole. Theory, although it pleteness of the archaeological record shifted from was not called that, was thought to present itself in the representativeness of the collection to its level the end.