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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Don't create confusion by redefining standard concepts

Archaeology sometimes seems to exist in its own little scholarly world. Compared to other disciplines, we have strange kinds of data—si...

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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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