Philosophy of Archaeology

Edited by Adrian Currie (Cambridge University, University of Exeter)
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Summary Archaeology has long been a philosophically and methodologically reflective science. This, in addition to being situated between the physical, social and historical sciences, makes it ideal (and typically under-utilized) fodder for philosophical analysis and understanding. This entry attempts to include both the clearly philosophical, and work attempting new, integrative approaches to archaeological reconstruction. Major issues in the philosophy of archaeology are epistemological, methodological and ethical. Epistemically, the status of archaeological evidence, and its capacity to underwrite reconstructions of prehistoric social worlds, must confront the decay of traces over time and the limited applicability of repeated experimentation so favored of physical sciences. Methodologically, archaeologists worry a lot about how best to treat their evidence: the long debates between processualists, structuralists, post-modernists, etc... are a testament to this. Moreover, archaeology is by its very nature pluralistic: it draws together many forms of evidence, from a diverse range of fields (from physics to evolutionary theory to comparative religion), making it a hot-spot for integrative and disunified approaches to science. Finally, archaeologists are often in the business of utilizing the material remains of sometimes venerated - and sometimes politically explosive - past people. This requires an ethical understanding of the delicate relationships between the scientist and the (often politically underrepresented) groups who also lay claim to such remains.
Key works For rich philosophical and historical discussion focusing largely on the epistemological and methodological issues in archaeology, Alison Wylie's work is invaluable, particularly Wylie 2002 which collects several of her papers. Another important work covering the epistemological issues is Kosso 2001's 'Knowing the past' . The papers collected in the Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Theory provide a good overview of theoretical issues in the science.
Introductions Historically, epistemological discussion in anthropology has coalesced around the evidential status of so-called 'ethnographic analogy': the use of contemporary anthropological evidence to inform pre-historical reconstruction. Alison Wylie's "The reaction against analogy" Wylie 1985 both provides a history and a philosophical analysis. Currie 2016 connects these issues to reconstruction in biology. Another good introduction to epistemological issues (which connects archaeology to wider issues in historical reconstruction) is Jeffares 2008. For a nice introduction to ethical issues in archaeology, see Bahn 1984.
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  1. Templi Ptolemaei — A look at the Purpose of the Serapeum at Alexandria.Jan M. van der Molen - Jan 28, 2019 - University of Groningen.
    The most discussed of architectural marvels tend to be the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or the Parthenon at Athens, supposedly because they are the ones we happen to have nominated ‘world wonders’; but that doesn’t mean all the rest of temple-type sites to be found across the greater Mediterranean area have less wonder about them. On the contrary; when wanting to explore and explain the role temples played in the lives of their ‘subscribers’ and a (...)
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  2. Archaeology and the philosophy of Wittgenstein.John L. Bintliff - forthcoming - Philosophy.
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  3. Epistemic and Ontological Divide between Human History and Prehistory.David Cernin - forthcoming - In Aviezer Tucker & David Černín (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Big History: The Philosophy of the Historical Sciences. Bloomsbury Academic.
    The entry aims to explore the idea of prehistory from numerous angles. While apparently unproblematic and mundane, prehistory has accumulated numerous philosophical issues since its "discovery" in the 19th century. First, the entry explores the epistemological issues associated with the idea that documentary sources are qualitatively different and more informative than material record. It follows both philosophical and historiographical discourse and demonstrates issues with the epistemological definition of prehistory. The second part explores ontological consideration and the discredited idea that there (...)
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  4. Beyond reasonable doubt: reconsidering Neanderthal aesthetic capacity.Andra Meneganzin & Anton Killin - forthcoming - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
    An aesthetic sense—a taste for the creation and/or appreciation of that which strikes one as, e.g., attractive or awesome—is often assumed to be a distinctively H. sapiens phenomenon. However, recent paleoanthropological research is revealing its archaeologically visible, deeper roots. The sensorimotor/perceptual and cognitive capacities underpinning aesthetic activities are a major focus of evolutionary aesthetics. Here we take a diachronic, evolutionary perspective and assess ongoing scepticism regarding whether, and to what extent, aesthetic capacity extends to our evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals. The (...)
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  5. Monsters and Monuments: Real Spaces and the Survival of Art.Jakub Stejskal - forthcoming - Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics.
    A truism of art history is that the lifespan of artworks can exceed their original social spaces: Artworks can sometimes be successfully transplanted into completely different settings where they continue to be valued. Does their potential to outlive their original context have to do with a specific feature of artworks’ ontology? Or with how human brains are wired? Or is it a mere function of their historical and social circumstances? I argue that David Summers’s magisterial _Real Spaces: World Art History (...)
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  6. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Big History: The Philosophy of the Historical Sciences.Aviezer Tucker & David Černín (eds.) - forthcoming - Bloomsbury Academic.
    Big History expands the scope of historiography to study all the past, from the Big Bang to the present. Big History is decidedly non-anthropocentric, recognising that humans appeared only very recently from a much deeper past. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Big History brings together an international cast of leading and emerging scholars from a range of disciplines to provide the first comprehensive and balanced exploration of this new and increasingly significant field. -/- The handbook considers the ways in which Big (...)
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  7. Imagining Dinosaurs.Michel-Antoine Xhignesse - forthcoming - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
    There is a tendency to take mounted dinosaur skeletons at face value, as the raw data on which the science of paleontology is founded. But the truth is that mounted dinosaur skeletons are substantially intention-dependent—they are artifacts. More importantly, I argue, they are also substantially imagination-dependent: their production is substantially causally reliant on preparators’ creative imaginations, and their proper reception is predicated on audiences’ recreative imaginations. My main goal here is to show that dinosaur skeletal mounts are plausible candidates for (...)
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  8. Unruly monsters : submarine mines in the Baltic region.Mirja Arnshav - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  9. Concrete and the contemporary.Torgeir Rinke Bangstad - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  10. Managing scars of terror in Norway's Government Quarter and the shifting memory values of VG's newspaper panel.Hein B. Bjerck & Elin Andreassen - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  11. An ethics of the wild.Levi R. Bryant - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  12. Retouching the Bronze Age : unruly rock art.Mats Burström - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  13. Things of the anthropocene : the unruly heritage of coastal reclamations in Japan.Denis Byrne - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  14. Picturing ghosts.Julie de Vos - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  15. Heritage lost and found : cruel optimism and climate futures.Caitlin DeSilvey - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  16. Wayward ruins : manifestations of unruliness in and of a German Second World War Luftwaffe storage camp in Pasvik/Paččvei Valley.Stein Farstadvoll - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  17. (1 other version)An archaeology of the contemporary era.Alfredo González Ruibal - 2025 - New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
    The second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflects on the archaeological theory and practice of the recent past. This book argues that the materiality of our times, and particularly its ruins and rubbish, reveals something profound and disturbing about modern societies. It examines the political, ethical, aesthetic and epistemological foundations of contemporary archaeology and characterizes the excess of the contemporary period through its material traces. This book (...)
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  18. The Buick at the end of the world : nature, things, and the hidden legacies of the century of automobility.Timothy James LeCain - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  19. In praise of what there is.Bjørnar J. Olsen - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  20. Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene.Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.) - 2025 - New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Exploring the current clash between the prevailing conceptions of heritage as, on the one hand, something valued and thus worth saving and, on the other, a haunting and unwanted legacy, this book urges a radical reconsideration of our understanding of heritage in line with the notion of an unruly legacy. The fundamental argument is based on a less anthropocentric and more ecologically focussed perspective, where case studies are presented on the following countries: Canada, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the (...)
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  21. Archaeological imaginations : unruly heritage lessons for the anthropocene.Þóra Pétursdóttir - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  22. Artificting archaeology : Joanna Rajkowska's Aquarius (2009) and Robert Kuśmirowski's The graduation tower (2014).Monika Stobiecka - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  23. Between use and abandonment : an archaeology of mothballing.Anatolijs Venovcevs - 2025 - In Bjørnar Olsen, Stein Farstadvoll & Geneviève Godin (eds.), Unruly heritage: archaeologies of the Anthropocene. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
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  24. A man-of-war in pieces : fragmenting the Rikswasa of 1959.Mirja Arnshav - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  25. Marking boundaries, making connections : fragmenting the body in Bronze Age Britain.Joanna Brück - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  26. Fragmentation research and the fetichization of independence.John Chapman - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  27. Breaking, making, dismantling and reassembling : fragmentation in Iron Age Britain.Helen Chittock - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  28. Archaeology for today and tomorrow.Craig N. Cipolla - 2024 - New York, NY: Routledge. Edited by Rachel Crellin & Oliver J. T. Harris.
    Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow explores how cutting-edge archaeological theories have implications not only for how we study the past, but also how we think about and prepare for the future. Ranging from how we understand migration or political leadership to how we think about violence or ecological crisis, the book argues that archaeology should embrace a "future-oriented" attitude. Behind the traditional archaeological gaze on the past are a unique and useful collection of skills, tools, and orientations for rethinking the (...)
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  29. Past materials, past minds: The philosophy of cognitive paleoanthropology.Adrian Currie, Anton Killin, Mathilde Lequin, Andra Meneganzin & Ross Pain - 2024 - Philosophy Compass 19 (6):e13001.
    The philosophy of cognitive paleoanthropology involves three related tasks: (1) asking what inferences might be drawn from the paleontological and archaeological records to past cognition, behavior and culture; (2) constructing synthetic accounts of the evolution of distinctive hominin capacities; (3) exploring how results from cognitive paleoanthropology might inform philosophy. We introduce some distinctive cognitive paleoanthropological inferences and discuss their epistemic standing, before considering how attention to the material records and the practice of paleoanthropology can inform and transform philosophical approaches.
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  30. Fragmented reindeer of Stállo Foundations : a multi-isotopic approach to fragmented reindeer skeletal remains from Adámvallda in Swedish Sápmi.Markus Fjellström - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  31. There is method in the madness : or how to approach fragmentation in archaeology.Bisserka Gaydarska - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  32. Describing identity : the individual and the collective in zooarchaeology.Emily H. Hull - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  33. Multiple objects : fragmentation and process in the Neolithic of Britain and Ireland.Andrew Meirion Jones - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  34. Selective fragmentation : exploring the treatment of metalwork across time and space in bronze age Britain.Matthew G. Knight - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  35. Breaking and making the ancestors : fragmentation as a key funerary practice in the creation of urnfield graves.Arjan Louwen - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  36. What is a trait? Lessons from the human chin.Andra Meneganzin, Grant Ramsey & James DIFrisco - 2024 - Journal of Experimental Zoology B 342 (2):65–75.
    The chin, a distinguishing feature of Homo sapiens, has sparked ongoing debates regarding its evolutionary origins and adaptive significance. We contend that these controversies stem from a fundamental disagreement about what constitutes a well-defined biological trait, a problem that has received insufficient attention despite its recognized importance in biology. In this paper, we leverage paleoanthropological research on the human chin to investigate the general issue of character or trait identification. First, we examine four accounts of the human chin from the (...)
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  37. Bonded by pieces : fragments as means of affirming kinship in Iron Age Finland.Ulla Moilanen - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  38. Philosophy, Cognition, and Archaeology.Janko Nešić & Vanja Subotić (eds.) - 2024 - Belgrade: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy.
    This edited volume aims to gather philosophers, archaeologists, and psychologists/cognitive scientists working at the intersection of paleoanthropology, cognitive archaeology, psychology, and philosophy of mind and cognition. It is a result of the Sciences of the Origin project supported by the University of Oxford project ‘New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe’ funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
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  39. Parted pairs : Viking age oval brooches in Britain, Ireland, and Iceland.Frida Espolin Norstein - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  40. Revisiting, selecting, breaking and removing : incomplete and fragmented Merovingian reopened graves in Western Europe.Astrid A. Noterman - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  41. Fusing fragments : repaired objects, refitted parts and upcycled pieces in the late bronze age metalwork of Southern Scandinavia.Karin Ojala & Anna Sörman - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  42. Cognitive Archaeology Meets Cultural Evolutionary Psychology.Ross Pain - 2024 - In Thomas Wynn, Karenleigh A. Overmann & Frederick L. Coolidge (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology. Oxford University Press. pp. 1149-1168.
    Cecilia Heyes recently developed a novel framework for understanding human cognitive evolution. Contrary to many traditional views, cultural evolutionary psychology argues that distinctively human cognitive traits are transmitted culturally, not biologically. In labeling these mechanisms of thought “cognitive gadgets,” Heyes draws a direct analogy with the cultural artifacts studied by archaeologists. This chapter explores how cultural evolutionary psychology can inform research in cognitive archaeology and vice versa. On the former line of thought, the chapter argues that adopting Heyes’ framework goes (...)
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  43. Expanding the causal menu: An interventionist perspective on explaining human behavioural evolution.Ronald J. Planer & Ross Pain - 2024 - Evolutionary Human Sciences 6:e39.
    Theorists of human evolution are interested in understanding major shifts in human behavioural capacities (e.g. the creation of a novel technological industry, such as the Acheulean). This task faces empirical challenges arising both from the complexity of these events and the time-depths involved. However, we also confront issues of a more philosophical nature, such as how to best think about causation and explanation. This article considers such fundamental questions from the perspective of a prominent theory of causation in the philosophy (...)
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  44. Four problems for archaeological refitting studies : discussion from the Taï Site and its neolithic pottery material (France).Sébastien Plutniak, Joséphine Caro & Claire Manen - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  45. House to house : fragmentation and deceptive memory-making at an early modern Swedish country house.Anna Röst - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  46. Pieces of the past, fragments for the future : broken metalwork in Nordic late bronze age hoards as memorabilia?Anna Sörman - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  47. Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology.Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.) - 2024 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    Broken bodies, places and objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history, and provides an up-to-date insight into the current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken and shared by two trade parties, dog jaws accompanying the dead in Mesolithic burials, fragments of ancient warships commodified as souvenirs, parts of an ancient dynastic throne split up between different colonial collections... Pieces of the past are everywhere around us. Fragments have a special potential precisely because (...)
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  48. Fragmentation in archaeological context : studying the incomplete.Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström - 2024 - In Anna Sörman, Astrid A. Noterman & Markus Fjellström (eds.), Broken bodies, places and objects: new perspectives on fragmentation in archaeology. New York, NY: Routledge.
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  49. Monumental Origins of Art History: Lessons from Mesopotamia.Jakub Stejskal - 2024 - History of Humanities 9 (2):377-399.
    When does art history begin? Art historiographers typically point to the Renaissance (Vasari) or, alternatively, to Hellenism (Pliny the Elder). But such origin stories become increasingly disconnected from contemporary disciplinary practices, especially as the latter try to rise to the challenge of conducting art history in a more diversified and global way. This essay provides an alternative account of art history’s origin, one that does not try to alleviate the sense of disconnect, but rather develops a global, non-Eurocentric account. The (...)
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  50. Semantic Internalism and Externalism In Paleolinguistics: Mind Your Language About Proto‐Indo‐European Mind And Language!Vanja Subotić - 2024 - In Janko Nešić & Vanja Subotić (eds.), Philosophy, Cognition, and Archaeology. Belgrade: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy. pp. 175-194.
    Paleolinguistics (or linguistic paleontology) is a scientific discipline that combines the methodology of historical linguistics with archaeological insights. Specifically, paleolinguists aim to reconstruct the linguistic expression of a particular archeological culture. In this paper I deal with the methodology of paleolinguistics since this has recently come under the scrutiny of philosophersfor instance, Mallory (2020) has argued that tools of the philosophy of language can be employed for charting the space of legitimate use of paleolinguistics, most notably the position of semantic (...)
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