考古学的文化传统与开展社会考古学的可能性

The Cultural Tradition of Archaeolegy and the Possibility of Developing Social Archaeology

One of the fruits of the post-processual archaeology is that practitioners begin to realize the importance of "social" factors in the development of human societies. But this raised furious arguments on whether archaeologists can sensibly speak of society, and of the repertoire of concepts and categories that go with it. The discussion here concerns only Paleolithic archaeological records. The bulk of the paper is directed to three issues. First, an excursion into the cultural traditions of the discipline to consider why Paleolithic archaeologists fell compelled to pursue social archaeology. Scond, a discussion of the role of archaeological epistemology in allowing us a framework within which to assess the consequences of this pursuit. Third, a sketch of an alternative programme for Paleolithic archaeology which seeks to re-define to programme of social archaeology away from a simplistic application of contemporary social theory to archaeological data.

One of the fruits of the post-processual archaeology is that practitioners begin to realize the importance of 'social' factors in the development of human societies. But this raised furious arguments on whether archaeologists can sensibly speak of society, and of the repertoire of concepts and categories that go with it. The discussion here concerns only Paleolithic archaeological records. The bulk of the paper is directed to three issues. First, an excursion into the cultural traditions of the discipline to consider why Paleolithic archaeologists fell compelled to pursue social archaeology. Second, a discussion of the role of archaeological epistemology in allowing us a framework within which to assess the consequences of this pursuit. Third, a sketch of an alternative programme for Paleolithic archaeology which seeks to re-define the programme of social archaeology away from a simplistic application of contemporary social theory to archaeological data.