Author: Cesar Gonzalez-Perez Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031371569 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 333
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This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures. The book begins with an introduction to discourse and argumentation analysis as a general field and also as an auxiliary technique to archaeology. The work includes conceptual applications, ranging from causality, ontological connections, vagueness, social production of discourse and public debates. The work also devotes a section to computational approaches and describes the specifics of some well-known families of algorithms such as lexical processing, information extraction or sentiment analysis. The conclusion comments on the future and which reflects on the previous chapters and discusses how the presented techniques and approaches should be adapted or improved for easier and more powerful application to archaeology. Contributing authors bring perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, and computer science.
Author: Michael Smith Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009249045 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.
Author: Andrew Bevan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315431920 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science. It focuses on the continuing importance of spatial and spatio-temporal pattern recognition in the archaeological record, considers more wholly model-based approaches that fix ideas and build theory, and addresses those applications where situated human experience and perception are a core interest. Reflecting the changes in computational technology over the past decade, the authors bring in examples from historic and prehistoric sites in Europe, Asia, and the Americas to demonstrate the variety of applications available to the contemporary researcher.
Author: Silvia Polla Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110377136 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 143
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This book contains a collection of papers discussing questions related to space and movement in the framework of computational archaeology, landscape archaeology, historical geography and archaeological theory. The contributions, written by recognized experts in the field, show how the study of settlements pattern and movement has been dramatically transformed by the use of technology like Geographic Information System (GIS). The papers focus on the ways to approach past movement using GIS in archaeological landscape studies: theoretical, technical and interpretative issues are addressed and explored. They provide the state of the art in theory and methodology and show, by using case studies, the potential of the developed approaches for the understanding of factors and effects of landscape formation and transformation in the long term.
Author: James McGlade Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134525028 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 558
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In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability over that of change. Change was primarily deemed due to external events (in archaeology mainly climatic or 'environmental'). Revolutionary innovations in the natural and life sciences, often (erroneously) referred to as 'chaos theory', suggest that there are ways to overcome this problem. A wide range of processes can be described in terms of dynamic systems, and modern computing methods enable us to investigate many of their properties. This volume presents a cogent argument for the use of such approaches, and a discussion of a number of its aspects by a range of scientists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.
Author: Pedro Paulo Funari Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306486520 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 380
Book Description
Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultures) is a subjective study. This subjective approach incorporates a plurality of readings, thereby implying that different interpretations are always possible, allowing us to modify and change our ideas under the light of new information and/or interpretive frameworks. In this way, interpretations form a continuous flow of transformation and change, and thus archaeologists do not uncover a real past but rather construct a historical past or a narrative of the past. Post-processual theory also incorporates a conscious and explicit political interest on the past of the scholar and the subject. This includes fields and topics such as gender issues, ethnicity, class, landscapes, and consumption. This reflects a conscious attempt to also decentralize the discipline, from an imperialist point of view to an empowering one. Method and theory also means being politically aware and engaged to incorporate diverse critical approaches to improve understanding of the past and the present. This book focuses on the fundamental theoretical issues found in the discipline and thus both engages and represents the very rich plurality of the post-processual approach to archaeology. The book is divided into four sections: Issues in Archaeological Theory, Archaeological Theory and Method in Action, Space and Power in Material Culture, and Images as Material Discourse.
Author: Ian Alden Russell Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9781441940759 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume begins a discourse on the implications of performing archaeology in a world dominated by modern trends of mass production, mass replication and representation of cultural forms, and mass consumption of images of the past. The contributors explore the extent to which contemporary consumption of mass-produced replicas, simulations, images and experiences of the past cause a crisis of representation of the past. Eschewing romantic beliefs, it discusses what archaeology can do.
Author: Bernhard Ganter Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 354067859X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 580
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2000, held in Darmstadt, Germany in August 2000. The 38 revised full papers presented have been carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The book is divided in topical sections on concepts and language, conceptual onthology, conceptual graphs, formal semantics of conceptual structures, contextual logic and formal concept analysis, conceptual structures in practice, and computational aspects of conceptual structures.
Author: Cesar Gonzalez-Perez
Author: Michael Smith
Author: Andrew Bevan
Author: Silvia Polla
Author: James McGlade
Author: Pedro Paulo Funari
Author: Ian Alden Russell
Author: Bernhard Ganter
Author: Merrilee H. Salmon
Author: Barcelo, Juan A.