Is archaeology a science, and why does objectivity remain such a contentious issue within the discipline?

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024 Discipline: Anthropology
  1. The nature of objectivity and its place in science are problems at the heart of the disagreements between processual and postprocessual archaeologists. While early polemic in the 1980s from some postprocessualists characterized processual attempts to be scientific as bogus at best and dangerous at worst, more recently, the debate has focussed on what exactly science is. Is archaeology a science, and why does objectivity remain such a contentious issue within the discipline? Make sure to introduce important individuals and their specific works/ideas from diverse theoretical perspectives to highlight your argument.

Yes, it is a science in the direction of this paper. The research should back up that archaeology is a science. 

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