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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Is Sociology too Activist, and not Sufficiently Rigorous?

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I am entertaining myself at the hospital by reading * John Levi Martin’s critique of * Ashley Rubin’s report  on the current state of poli...
Monday, July 6, 2026

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  Just What we DON’T Need: A New Predatory Journal in Archaeology I just got a notice about a new predatory journal, “ Archaeological Stud...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

When big data are bad data

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As archaeologists turn increasingly to the analysis of large, systematic databases, we need to confront an epistemological problem: How d...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

George Cowgill's database and my introduction to scientific archaeology

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Here is a very short video that describes how I first got into the science of archaeology: George had a database!
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Ian Hodder says archaeology is bullshit. My reply: “Bullshit!”

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In a remarkably bad short paper in the current SAA Archaeological Record , Ian Hodder makes a number of statements that equate to the claim ...
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Michael E. Smith
I am an archaeologist who has excavated Aztec provincial houses in Mexico to reconstruct the political economy of ancient life. I now work primarily on comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to ancient cities. Does research on early cities have anything to teach us about fundamental urban processes such as resilience, adaptation, and change? I'd like to know. I view my discipline, archaeology, as a Comparative Historical Social Science.
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