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- Izdebski, Adam, et al.
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Realising consilience : How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean
- 2016
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Ingår i: Quaternary Science Reviews. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-3791 .- 1873-457X. ; 136, s. 5-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic changes in the Mediterranean basin. We begin by discussing the methodologies of these three disciplines in the context of the consilience debate, that is, attempts to unify different research methodologies that address similar problems. We demonstrate that there are a number of similarities in the fundamental methodology between history, archaeology, and the natural sciences that deal with the past (palaeoenvironmental sciences), due to their common interest in studying societal and environmental phenomena that no longer exist. The three research traditions, for instance, employ specific narrative structures as a means of communicating research results. We thus present and compare the narratives characteristic of each discipline; in order to engage in fruitful interdisciplinary exchange, we must first understand how each deals with the societal impacts of climatic change. In the second part of the paper, we focus our discussion on the four major practical issues that hinder communication between the three disciplines. These include terminological misunderstandings, problems relevant to project design, divergences in publication cultures, and differing views on the impact of research. Among other recommendations, we suggest that scholars from the three disciplines should aim to create a joint publication culture, which should also appeal to a wider public, both inside and outside of academia.
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- Bartosiewicz, László, 1954-, et al.
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Social aspects of plant and animal consumption at late Chalcolithic Arslantepe, Turkey
- 2021
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Ingår i: Origini. - 0474-6805. ; 44, s. 35-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is aimed at establishing trends in the taxonomic composition of Late Chalcolithic animal and plant assemblages in three different sectors of the Arslantepe settlement in Eastern Anatolia. Differences between common and elite dwellings as well as communal areas and storage facilities may help highlight parallels outlined by sister disciplines in reconstructing diet in various periods of the site. Capricious patterns found during the distinction between elite residences and common households were in part influenced by changes in food consumption through time, a hypothesis tested by diachronic comparisons between animal and plant remains in an effort to pinpoint the expression of social inequalities in the diet. The analyses are based on groupings of provenances seen as functionally diverse areas whose individual composition of biological remains can be compared to other archaeological parameters discussed by Balossi Restelli et alii and Iacumin et alii in the same issue.
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