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Showing posts with label Hunter-gatherers. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Hunter-gatherers. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2018

When big data are bad data

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

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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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