Archaeological Epistemology in the Digital Age
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Digital technologies are becoming integral to archaeological practice, from research to pedagogy and public outreach. In the past decade, many archaeologists have reflected on how these technologies impact their work in the field and in the classroom, but they largely focus on how they developed, implemented, or improved digital tools or techniques designed to organize, analyze, and disseminate data. Yet as digital technologies become increasingly essential to how archaeologists investigate the past, we must also consider how they create new ways of engaging with, interpreting, and classifying materials, things, sites, and regions. For example, how do—or could—digital databases alter our understanding of relationships between and inextricable assemblages of humans, organisms, things, soils, and environments? Must the digital data we create themselves become artifacts of an archaeological record imagined as a collection of static entities? Or can the digital data add a new dimension to our understanding of the archaeological record as a dynamic process made up of sequences of entrained elements? How do digital tools change the way we "assemble" constellations of artifacts and practices, and consequently, reconstruct the past? This session addresses these questions of archaeological epistemology in the digital age.
Other Keywords
digital archaeology •
Epistemology •
Digital •
andes •
Preservation •
Anthropology •
Theory •
Modeling •
Sociology •
Gis
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Republic of Armenia (Country) •
Georgia (Country) •
Kingdom of Sweden (Country) •
Kingdom of Norway (Country) •
French Republic (Country) •
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort (Country) •
Ireland (Country) •
Isle of Man (Country) •
Kingdom of Belgium (Country)
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- Documents (12)
- Agelah and the Powershot: Digital Possibilities for Alternate Ways of Knowing in Archaeology (2017)
- The Anthropology of Data Design and Project Strategy (2017)
- Archaeology's Digital Interfaces (2017)
- The Digital Evolution at Chan Chich, Belize (2017)
- Downscaling in Archaeology: From digital forest to probable trees (2017)
- From Trench to Tablet: Field Recording, Interpreting, and Publishing in the Age of Digital Archaeology (2017)
- Podcasts as Archaeological Digital Preservation (2017)
- Producing Knowledge Through the Production of 3D Digital Artifacts (2017)
- Rethinking Assemblages in the Digital Age (2017)
- Thinking Differently? How Digital Engagement, Teaching, and Research Have Influenced My Archaeological Knowledge (2017)
- Thinking outside the map: Alternative approaches to data visualization (2017)
- Thinking Socially: Digital Archaeology Beyond Technological Fetishism (2017)