Events, Narrative, and Data: Why New Chronologies, Big Data, and New Materiality Should Change How We Write Archaeology
Author(s): Seren Griffiths; Ben Edwards; Tom Higham; Julian Thomas
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Archaeology, at its broadest, constitutes a specific set of practices utilizing material culture to create meaningful narratives. Central to this is our discipline’s relationships with time. This paper will discuss the "time dimensions" and ways archaeological narratives are structured. We suggest that archaeologists need to readdress our approaches to time given recent developments in archaeological research. Times have changed.
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Events, Narrative, and Data: Why New Chronologies, Big Data, and New Materiality Should Change How We Write Archaeology. Seren Griffiths, Ben Edwards, Tom Higham, Julian Thomas. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466620)
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Keywords
General
Culture history, social change, big data
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Dating Techniques
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Material Culture and Technology
Geographic Keywords
Europe: Western Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -13.711; min lat: 35.747 ; max long: 8.965; max lat: 59.086 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 32495