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Introduction | |
The Construction of the Science of Archaeology | |
models a science of prehistory on geology and the pre-Darwinian evolution of his mentor Robert Chambers of Edinburgh | |
Science Boldly Predicts Behind Wilson's science of prehistory were the Scottish reformers George Combe and Robert Chambers opposed to the Scots was the London scientific Establishment led | |
Lubbock Nineteenth-century mainstream science "boldy predicts" | |
Consolidating Prehistory Comparing Wilson's Prehistoric Manwith Lubbock's rival volume, it is Lubbock's more purely ideological, racist statements that, coupled with his influential social position, won his Pre-historic Timesits place in the Whig histories of archaeology | |
America's History A detailed examination of Wilson's presentation of American prehistory, in which he recognizes the civilizations of American Indian nations | |
Positivists of the New Frontier | |
Professional American archaeology took off at the time when Turner announced that the physical frontier was at last closed, challenging | |
Americans to go to new internal frontiers of research and economic development | |
American archaeology used positivist science to investigate the trans-frontier Land of Prehistory | |
Petrified Puddle Ducks Walter Taylor's 1948 monograph acidly criticized contemporary American archaeology | |
The New Archaeology Ten years after Taylor | |
Lewis Binford launched an attack on American archaeology Carefully planned strategies and rhetoric blatantly dressing up proposals as Big Science gained | |
National Science Foundation funding and made older archaeologists look naive | |
The Philosophy of the New Archaeology | |
An analysis of the much-touted philosophy of science of the New Archaeology | |
Cahokia: Hidden in Plain Sight | |
Mainstream American archaeologists' treatment of Cahokia, the awesome capital of an eleventh-century | |
Midwestern state, reveals how powerfully Manifest Destiny ideology still affects American archaeology | |
Burrowing Through the Chiefdom | |
Lewis Henry Morgan's "origin myth" for American industrial capitalism is carried on through White, Service, and their students such as Timothy Earle | |
The Taboo Topic | |
Mainstream American archaeology absolutely refuses to discuss prehistoric contacts across salt water, even across the Gulf of Mexico | |
This legacy from Wilson's interpretation of American prehistory has been reinforced | |
Manifest Destiny ideology | |
Land of PrehistoryPostmodernists, sociologists of science, and many members of America's First | |
Nations show little confidence in archaeologists' capacity to study the past | |
This final chapter outlines an approach to archaeological data that recognizes the social construction of knowledge without discounting empiricism or denigrating First Nations' own historical universes. | |
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