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- Title
Speculation Made Material: Experimental Archaeology and Maker's Knowledge.
- Authors
Currie, Adrian
- Abstract
Experimental archaeology is often understood both as testing hypotheses about processes shaping the archaeological record and as generating tacit knowledge. Considering lithic technologies, I examine the relationship between these conceptions. Experimental archaeology is usefully understood via "maker's knowledge": archaeological experiments generate embodied know-how enabling archaeological hypotheses to be grasped and challenged, and further, well-positioning archaeologists to generate integrated interpretations. Finally, experimental archaeology involves "material speculation": the constraints and affordances of archaeologists and their materials shape productive exploration of the capacities of objects and human skill in ways relevant to archaeological questions.
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL archaeology; TACIT knowledge; SPECULATION; ARCHAEOLOGISTS; PREHENSION (Physiology)
- Publication
Philosophy of Science, 2022, Vol 89, Issue 2, p337
- ISSN
0031-8248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/psa.2021.31