The Archaeology of Science : Studying the Creation of Useful Knowledge. 1st ed. 2013

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by Michael Brian Schiffer

出版情報:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013

著者名:

• Schiffer, Michael Brian.
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シリーズ名:

Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique ; 9

ISBN:

9783319000770 [3319000772]    

注記:

PART I.- 1  Introduction.-2  Science:  A Behavioral Perspective -- 3  The Varieties of Scientific Knowledge.-PART II -- 4  Experimental Archaeology -- 5  Ethnoarchaeology -- 6  Archaeometry -- PART III  -- 7  The Artifacts of Modern and Early Modern Science -- 8  Thomas Edison’s Science -- 9  Colonization and Exploration -- 10  Scientific Expeditions to Antarctica.-11  The U.S. Nuclear Establishment.-12  Archaeology of the Space Age -- 13  Discovery Processes.
This manual pulls together—and illustrates with interesting case studies—the variety of specialized and generalized archaeological research strategies that yield new insights into science. Throughout the book there are templates, consisting of questions, to help readers visualize and design their own projects. The manual seeks to be as general as possible, applicable to any society, and so science is defined as the creation of useful knowledge—the kinds of knowledge that enable people to make predictions. The chapters in Part I discuss the scope of the archaeology of science and furnish a conceptual foundation for the remainder of the book. Included are basic principles of behavioral archaeology that, because they privilege people-artifact interactions, can be employed to frame new research on science.  The varieties of scientific knowledge—from observations to theories and everything in between—are defined in behavioral terms.  Next, Part II presents several specialized, but widely practiced, research strate

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