Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives
Digital Technology and Deep-Time Perspectives on Culture Change in the Middle East
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Beschreibung
This volume asks how the current Information Technology Revolution influences archaeological interpretations of techno-social change. Does cyber-archaeology provide a way to breathe new life into grand narratives of technological revolution and culture change, or does it further challenge these high-level theoretical explanations? Do digital recording methods have the potential to create large, regional-scale databases to ease investigation of high-level theoretical issues, or have they simply exposed deeper issues of archaeological practice that prevent this? In short, this volume cuts beyond platitudes about the revolutionary potential of the Information Technology Revolution and instead critically engages both its possibilities and limitations.
The contributions to this volume are drawn from long-term regional studies employing a cyber-archaeology framework, primarily in the southern Levant, a region with rich archaeological data sets spanning the Paleo
lithic to the present day. As such, contributors are uniquely placed to comment on the interface between digital methods and grand narratives of long-term techno-social change. Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives provides a much-needed challenge to current approaches, and a first step toward integrating innovative digital methods with archaeological theory.Holistic field that combines the insights of traditional archaeology, archaeological science, and digital archaeology
Southern Levant presents a unique opportunity for archaeologists to evaluate theories of long-term culture change
A critical appraisal of the interface between digital methods and archaeological theory
Holistic field that combines the insights of traditional archaeology, archaeological science, and digital archaeology Southern Levant presents a unique opportunity for archaeologists to evaluate theories of long-term culture change A critical appraisal of the interface between digital methods and archaeological theory Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Thomas E. Levy
Themen in »Cyber-Archaeology and Grand Narratives«
digital archaeology in the Levant archaeological projects in the digital age long-term regional studies and cyber-archaeology framework large scale data sets in archaeology grand narratives of culture change in the Mediterranean computer applications in archaeology innovative digital methods and understanding of the past