Radical archaeology and middle-range methodology

• Autores: Dean J. Saitta
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 66, Nº 253, 1992, págs. 886-897
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Methodologies for learning about the past are currently at issue within archaeology. This paper considers learning from the standpoint of a ‘radical’ archaeology. One strand of a radical archaeology's approach to learning–a Marxist strand–is discussed, and its main methodological challenge identified. This challenge is the development of middle-range frameworks for recognizing what Binford and others term ‘ambiguity’ – unexpected variation in the archaeological record from which fresh insights about the past can be produced. Concepts and ideas for constructing appropriate middle-ranges for a radical archaeology are discussed.