Ethnographic Analogy, Comparative Methods, and Archaeological Evidence.
Ethnographic Analogy, Comparative Methods, and Archaeological Evidence.
Ethnographic analogy is often a flash point of archaeological thinking and debate about both the nature of archaeological evidence and the nature of archaeology itself. Adrian would like to discuss that ethnographies in archaeological argument is best understood in terms of similar inferential practices in biology. In this seminar, he will summarise this previous work and try to bring out some potential dis-analogies between comparative work in archaeology and biology.
| A Department of Archaeology seminar | |
|---|---|
| Date | 7 November 2019 |
| Time | 15:30 to 17:00 |
| Place | Laver Building LT3 |
| Organizer | Prof Oliver Creighton |
Event details
Ethnographic analogy is often a flash point of archaeological thinking and debate about both the nature of archaeological evidence and the nature of archaeology itself. Adrian would like to discuss that ethnographies in archaeological argument is best understood in terms of similar inferential practices in biology. In this seminar, he will summarise this previous work and try to bring out some potential dis-analogies between comparative work in archaeology and biology.
Location:
Laver Building LT3
