Test, Model, and Method Validation: The Role of Experimental Stone Artifact Replication in Hypothesis-driven Archaeology

IF 1.8 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Ethnoarchaeology Pub Date : 2016-07-02 DOI:10.1080/19442890.2016.1213972

M. Eren, S. Lycett, Robert J. Patten, Briggs Buchanan, J. Pargeter, M. J. O’Brien

引用次数: 158

Abstract

For many years, intuition and common sense often guided the transference of patterning ostensibly evident in experimental flintknapping results to interpretations of the archaeological record, with little emphasis placed on hypothesis testing, experimental variables, experimental design, or statistical analysis of data. Today, archaeologists routinely take steps to address these issues. We build on these modern efforts by reviewing several important uses of replication experiments: (1) as a means of testing a question, hypothesis, or assumption about certain parameters of stone-tool technology; (2) as a model, in which information from empirically documented situations is used to generate predictions; and (3) as a means of validating analytical methods. This review highlights the important strategic role that stone artifact replication experiments must continue to play in further developing a scientific approach to archaeology.

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测试、模型和方法验证:实验石器复制在假设驱动考古学中的作用

多年来，直觉和常识常常引导着将表面上在实验打石结果中明显的模式转移到对考古记录的解释上，而很少强调假设检验、实验变量、实验设计或数据统计分析。今天，考古学家经常采取措施来解决这些问题。我们在这些现代努力的基础上，回顾了复制实验的几个重要用途:(1)作为测试关于石器工具技术某些参数的问题、假设或假设的手段;(2)作为一个模型，利用从经验记录的情况中获得的信息来产生预测;(3)作为验证分析方法的手段。这篇综述强调了在进一步发展科学的考古学方法中，石器文物复制实验必须继续发挥重要的战略作用。

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Ethnoarchaeology ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Ethnoarchaeology, a cross-cultural peer-reviewed journal, focuses on the present position, impact of, and future prospects of ethnoarchaeological and experimental studies approaches to anthropological research. The primary goal of this journal is to provide practitioners with an intellectual platform to showcase and appraise current research and theoretical and methodological directions for the 21st century. Although there has been an exponential increase in ethnoarchaeological and experimental research in the past thirty years, there is little that unifies or defines our subdiscipline. Ethnoarchaeology addresses this need, exploring what distinguishes ethnoarchaeological and experimental approaches, what methods connect practitioners, and what unique suite of research attributes we contribute to the better understanding of the human condition. In addition to research articles, the journal publishes book and other media reviews, periodic theme issues, and position statements by noted scholars.