CYBER - ARCHAEOLOGY AND GRAND NARRATIVES
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- Author: THOMAS E. LEVY
- ISBN: 9783319656922
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ABOUT THE BOOK
This volume asks how the current Information
Technology Revolution influences archaeological interpretations of
techno-social change. Does cyber-archaeology provide a way to breathe new life
into grand narratives of technological revolution and culture change, or does
it further challenge these high-level theoretical explanations? Do digital
recording methods have the potential to create large, regional-scale databases
to ease investigation of high-level theoretical issues, or have they simply
exposed deeper issues of archaeological practice that prevent this? In short,
this volume cuts beyond platitudes about the revolutionary potential of the
Information Technology Revolution and instead critically engages both its
possibilities and limitations.
The contributions to this volume are drawn from long-term
regional studies employing a cyber-archaeology framework, primarily in the
southern Levant, a region with rich archaeological data sets spanning the
Paleolithic to the present day. As such, contributors are uniquely placed to
comment on the interface between digital methods and grand narratives of
long-term techno-social change. Cyber-Archaeology
and Grand Narratives provides a much-needed challenge to current
approaches, and a first step toward integrating innovative digital methods with
archaeological theory.
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