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100			_aArponen, VPJ _952412
245			_aBetween natural and human sciences: On the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology/
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 29, issue 10, 2019 : (1671-1676 p.).
520			_aProminent voices in archeology have expressed deep skepticism about the role of theory in archeology, while with new, exciting methods at its disposal, archeological science is occasionally perceived as not needing theory at all. This article reflects upon the debate about theory in archeology to arrive at a robust but critical middle-range concept of the role and character of theory in socio-environmental archeology. It is argued that archeology is a data-based science and, consequently, in order for theory to be meaningful in socio-environmental archeology, theory ought explicitly aim to make its qualitative concepts quantitative to establish a clear relation to data and its interpretation. On the turn side, theory plays an important role critically reflecting upon the use of concepts in archeological understanding and explanation, as well as their origins in particular paradigms, as examples of which certain debates in scientific archeology are discussed (aDNA and migration, evolutionism). We argue that such a model would serve archeology far more than the dismissal of theory on the one hand and the continued production of ‘high’ theory in absence of operationalization on the other.
650			_aarcheological theory _952413
650			_aevolutionary theory, _952414
650			_a human science, _952415
650			_aimmigration, _950354
650			_anatural science, _952416
650			_areflectivity _952417
700			_aGrimm, Sonja _952418
700			_aKäppel, Lutz _952419
700			_aOtt, Konrad _952420
700			_aThalheim, Bernhard _952421
700			_aKropp, Yannic _952422
700			_dKittig, Kim _952423
700			_dBrinkmann, Johanna _952424
700			_dRibeiro , Artur _952425
773	0		_012756 _916504 _dLondon: Sage Publication Ltd, 2019. _tHolocene/ _x09596836
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619857226
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