Sound of Theory

The folk have sung, on YouTube: enough of personalities. This session brings in responsible scientists, responsible in that they respond to empirical data, to stakeholders, communities, and descendants, and to basic principles of the historical sciences, including IBE, inference to the best explanation. Evidence-based practices let theory flow from encountered data, evaluated not only from Western Enlightenment suppositions of universal regularities, but also from the realities understood by communities from other cultural epistemologies. Ethics as well as politics must not be magicked away from archaeologists' work toward inferences to the best explanations