Preface ........................................................ ix
Acknowledgments .............................................. xvii
PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHY FROM THE GROUND UP ......... l
PART TWO. HOW NEW IS THE NEW ARCHAEOLOGY, AND OTHER
HISTORICAL ESSAYS .................................. 23
1. How New Is the New Archaeology? ............................. 25
2. The Typology Debate ......................................... 42
3. The Conceptual Core of the New Archaeology .................. 57
4. Emergent Tensions in the New Archaeology .................... 78
5. Arguments for Scientific Realism ............................ 97
6. Between Philosophy and Archaeology ......................... 106
PART THREE. INTERPRETIVE DILEMMAS: CRISIS ARGUMENTS IN
THE NEW ARCHAEOLOGY ............................... 115
7. The Interpretive Dilemma ................................... 117
8. Epistemological Issues Raised by Symbolic and
Structuralist Archaeology .................................. 127
9. The Reaction against Analogy ............................... 136
10.Putting Shakertown Back Together: Critical Theory in
Archaeology ................................................ 154
11.Archaeological Cables and Tacking: Beyond Objectivism
and Relativism ............................................. 161
PART FOUR. ON BEING "EMPIRICAL" BUT NOT "NARROWLY
EMPIRICIST" ....................................... 169
12."Heavily Decomposing Red Herrings": Middle Ground in
the Anti-/Postprocessualism Wars ........................... 171
13.Bootstrapping in the Un-natural Sciences—Archaeology,
for Example ................................................ 179
14.The Constitution of Archaeological Evidence: Gender
Politics and Science ....................................... 185
15.Rethinking Unity as a "Working Hypothesis" for
Philosophy of Science: How Archaeologists Exploit the
Disunities of Science ...................................... 200
16.Unification and Convergence in Archaeological
Explanation ................................................ 211
PART FIVE. ISSUES OF ACCOUNTABILITY .......................... 227
17.Ethical Dilemmas in Archaeological Practice: The
(Trans)formation of Disciplinary Identity .................. 229
Notes ......................................................... 247
References Cited .............................................. 293
Names Index ................................................... 323
Subject Index ................................................. 327
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