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Archaeological thinking : how to make sense of the past / Charles E. Orser, Jr.

By: Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015Description: xxii, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442226975 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781442226982 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1 23
LOC classification:
  • CC83 .O77 2015
Contents:
What's this all about, anyway?: thinking in archaeology -- It all seems so sciencey: archaeology, science, and history -- Those pesky facts: understanding historical facts -- If p . . . then what?: archaeological thinking and logic -- Is that chair really a chair?: analogy and archaeological thinking -- Source-thinking: the relationship between archaeological and textual evidence -- Artifact-thinking: archaeological thought and excavated things -- Thinking to some purpose: archaeological research and critical thinking.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's this all about, anyway?: thinking in archaeology -- It all seems so sciencey: archaeology, science, and history -- Those pesky facts: understanding historical facts -- If p . . . then what?: archaeological thinking and logic -- Is that chair really a chair?: analogy and archaeological thinking -- Source-thinking: the relationship between archaeological and textual evidence -- Artifact-thinking: archaeological thought and excavated things -- Thinking to some purpose: archaeological research and critical thinking.

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