Integrating Archaeology. Science - Wish - Reality

A science editor's wish list

One-sentence summary: This article presents an experience-based opinion on resources that would help author's editors working on scientific manuscripts perform their tasks more efficiently. Before I stumbled into a career in science editing, I had not fully appreciated how multi-layered the task of an author's editor can be; I had barely even known that such a profession existed. I began to enj...

Nourishing archaeology and science.

Archaeology is an interdisciplinary science par excellence. In its quest to reconstruct human behavior in the natural and cultural environment of the past, archaeology uses knowledge and techniques from many different academic disciplines. Indeed, there are very few sciences that have no relevance to archaeology. The concept of “holistic archaeology” was specifically defined as an inclusive app...

Experimental Archaeology of Computer Science

The technologies of the first computers are very far from us. While not much time passed, reconstructing and properly understanding how an old computer works is a hard task. Few blueprints and technical manuals survived, and these documents are frequently fragmentary. Though the researchers that built and used those computers are often still alive and willing to help, they cannot recall detaile...

Archaeology as a social science.

Because of advances in methods and theory, archaeology now addresses issues central to debates in the social sciences in a far more sophisticated manner than ever before. Coupled with methodological innovations, multiscalar archaeological studies around the world have produced a wealth of new data that provide a unique perspective on long-term changes in human societies, as they document variat...

Myth and Reality: the Contribution of Archaeology