Discourse And Argumentation In Archaeology Conceptual And Computational Approaches
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Discourse and Argumentation in Archaeology Conceptual and Computational Approaches
Author | : Cesar Gonzalez-Perez,Patricia Martin-Rodilla,Martín Pereira-Fariña |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2023-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783031371561 |
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This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures. The book begins with an introduction to discourse and argumentation analysis as a general field and also as an auxiliary technique to archaeology. The work includes conceptual applications, ranging from causality, ontological connections, vagueness, social production of discourse and public debates. The work also devotes a section to computational approaches and describes the specifics of some well-known families of algorithms such as lexical processing, information extraction or sentiment analysis. The conclusion comments on the future and which reflects on the previous chapters and discusses how the presented techniques and approaches should be adapted or improved for easier and more powerful application to archaeology. Contributing authors bring perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, and computer science.
Urban Life in the Distant Past
Author | : Michael Smith |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009249041 |
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The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.
Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces
Author | : Andrew Bevan,Mark Lake |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781315431918 |
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This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science. It focuses on the continuing importance of spatial and spatio-temporal pattern recognition in the archaeological record, considers more wholly model-based approaches that fix ideas and build theory, and addresses those applications where situated human experience and perception are a core interest. Reflecting the changes in computational technology over the past decade, the authors bring in examples from historic and prehistoric sites in Europe, Asia, and the Americas to demonstrate the variety of applications available to the contemporary researcher.
Computational Approaches to the Study of Movement in Archaeology
Author | : Silvia Polla,Philip Verhagen |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110288384 |
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This book contains a collection of papers discussing questions related to space and movement in the framework of computational archaeology, landscape archaeology, historical geography and archaeological theory. The contributions, written by recognized experts in the field, show how the study of settlements pattern and movement has been dramatically transformed by the use of technology like Geographic Information System (GIS). The papers focus on the ways to approach past movement using GIS in archaeological landscape studies: theoretical, technical and interpretative issues are addressed and explored. They provide the state of the art in theory and methodology and show, by using case studies, the potential of the developed approaches for the understanding of factors and effects of landscape formation and transformation in the long term.
Images Representations and Heritage
Author | : Ian Russell |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2006-11-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780387322162 |
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This volume begins a discourse on the implications of performing archaeology in a world dominated by modern trends of mass production, mass replication and representation of cultural forms, and mass consumption of images of the past. The contributors explore the extent to which contemporary consumption of mass-produced replicas, simulations, images and experiences of the past cause a crisis of representation of the past. Eschewing romantic beliefs, it discusses what archaeology can do.
Global Archaeological Theory
Author | : Pedro Paulo Funari,Andrés Zarankin,Emily Stovel |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006-04-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780306486524 |
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Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultures) is a subjective study. This subjective approach incorporates a plurality of readings, thereby implying that different interpretations are always possible, allowing us to modify and change our ideas under the light of new information and/or interpretive frameworks. In this way, interpretations form a continuous flow of transformation and change, and thus archaeologists do not uncover a real past but rather construct a historical past or a narrative of the past. Post-processual theory also incorporates a conscious and explicit political interest on the past of the scholar and the subject. This includes fields and topics such as gender issues, ethnicity, class, landscapes, and consumption. This reflects a conscious attempt to also decentralize the discipline, from an imperialist point of view to an empowering one. Method and theory also means being politically aware and engaged to incorporate diverse critical approaches to improve understanding of the past and the present. This book focuses on the fundamental theoretical issues found in the discipline and thus both engages and represents the very rich plurality of the post-processual approach to archaeology. The book is divided into four sections: Issues in Archaeological Theory, Archaeological Theory and Method in Action, Space and Power in Material Culture, and Images as Material Discourse.
Time Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology
Author | : James McGlade,Sander E. van der Leeuw |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134525027 |
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In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability over that of change. Change was primarily deemed due to external events (in archaeology mainly climatic or 'environmental'). Revolutionary innovations in the natural and life sciences, often (erroneously) referred to as 'chaos theory', suggest that there are ways to overcome this problem. A wide range of processes can be described in terms of dynamic systems, and modern computing methods enable us to investigate many of their properties. This volume presents a cogent argument for the use of such approaches, and a discussion of a number of its aspects by a range of scientists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.
Archaeological Theory in Dialogue
Author | : Rachel J. Crellin,Craig N. Cipolla,Lindsay M. Montgomery,Oliver J.T. Harris,Sophie V. Moore |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-11-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780429651403 |
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Archaeological Theory in Dialogue presents an innovative conversation between five scholars from different backgrounds on a range of central issues facing archaeology today. Interspersing detailed investigations of critical theoretical issues with dialogues between the authors, the book interrogates the importance of four themes at the heart of much contemporary theoretical debate: relations, ontology, posthumanism, and Indigenous paradigms. The authors, who work in Europe and North America, explore how these themes are shaping the ways that archaeologists conduct fieldwork, conceptualize the past, and engage with the political and ethical challenges that our discipline faces in the twenty-first century. The unique style of Archaeological Theory in Dialogue, switching between detailed arguments and dialogical exchange, makes it essential reading for both scholars and students of archaeological theory and those with an interest in the politics and ethics of the past.