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Archaeology as Historical Science

出版	Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture, and Archaeology, Banares Hindu University, 1985
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=P9i1AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"This monograph will examine certain general aspects of nature and orientation of prehistoric archaeology, paying particular attention to its relationship to the disciplines of history and anthropology. I do not intend merely to criticize views currently held by many of the most articulate and influential prehistoric archaeologists in the United States and increasingly elsewhere, but will offer what I hope will be convincing alternatives to these views. For historical reasons that will be made clear later, prehistoric archaeology has long been regarded in the United States almost exclusively as a branch of anthropology. This view has acquired even greater prominence as a result of the New Archaeology's desire to demonstrate that archaeological data are as useful as ethnographic ones for generalizing about human behaviour. Only recently have some United States archaeologists begun to question whether archaeology might not develop more satisfactorily if it did not seek to model its procedures exclusively upon those of ethnology or social anthropology (e.g. Meltzer 1979 :654; Kohl 1981; Leone 1982). This suggests that prehistoric archaeologists in the United States may be more receptive than they have been for some time to considering the value of archaeological orientations developed in other countries or alternative approaches to archaeology in their own."-- Introduction.