All Outputs (3)

Legacy Data, Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wylie, A. (2016, November). Legacy Data, Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning. Presented at PSA 2016: The 25th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association., Atlanta, GA, USA

Archaeologists put a premium on pressing “legacy data” into service, given the notoriously selective and destructive nature of their practices of data capture. Legacy data consist of material and records that been assembled over decades, sometimes ce... Read More about Legacy Data, Radiocarbon Dating and Robustness Reasoning.

How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways (2016)
Journal Article
Wylie, A. (2017). How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 42(2), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243916671200

Archaeological data are shadowy in a number of senses. They are notoriously incomplete and fragmentary, and the sedimented layers of interpretive scaffolding on which archaeologists rely to constitute these data as evidence carry the risk that they w... Read More about How Archaeological Evidence Bites Back Strategies for Putting Old Data to Work in New Ways.

Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology (2016)
Book
Chapman, R., & Wylie, A. (2016). Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology. Bloomsbury

How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially... Read More about Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology.