Science in Archaeology: Ann Ramenofsky’s Contributions

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ann Ramenofsky has a record of scholarship in archaeology in which one can identify a consistent application of a science-based approach. This approach recognizes: the systematic nature of science; the distinction between conceptual and empirical domains; the role of unit formation in science, the complementary roles of theory and methodology, and how archaeological methods must be sufficiently rigorous to be tied to a set of expectations that can be demonstrated to be false. This approach is exemplified here in several of Ramenofsky’s key publications on population collapse, using frequency seriation as a tool for creating intra-pueblo community chronological sequences, and how to reconstruct prehistoric to historic population histories in the American Southwest.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career

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Abstract Id(s): 23508