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 whet...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.展开更多
基金MacMillan International Doctoral Dissertation Grant at YaleSigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research(G2017031593376829)+1 种基金Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant国家社科基金青年项目“胶东沿海地区大汶口文化早期的生物考古学研究”(14CKG003)对文中北阡遗址人骨研究的资助
文摘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.
