The Development of Archaeology as an Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Discipline 1960–2022

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeology as a research activity has changed dramatically over the past 70 years. Where once archaeology might have been seen as a discipline closely related to history and classics, the introduction of new techniques from other disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts has created a discipline that now thinks of itself and its research as inherently interdisciplinary. Its practitioners are required to understand the concepts and limitations of approaches from many different perspectives, and to think creatively about how they can be best used. This poster will present a visualization of the growth and nature of interdisciplinary research in archaeology between 1970 and 2022 using bibliometric data and network-based science mapping techniques. Specifically this poster will investigate differences between (1) the disciplines from which archaeologists draw their background research, (2) the disciplinary contexts in which archaeological research is published, and (3) the range of disciplines within which archaeological research is cited. The poster will include a series of network maps that can be interrogated online by viewers at the conference and later.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35556.0