An Introduction to Philosophy of Archaeology

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Hekmat Allah Mollasalehi ¹ (Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-02 Accepted : 2023-07-02 Published : 2014-08-23

Keywords: Archaeology, philosophy, logos, modern world, Disciplinary, Extra-disciplinary, Archeos, Archaion,

Abstract :

This article speculates the categorization of different way of approach to understanding of Archaeology as an academic discipline or as a body of scientific methods of research with its own cognitive or epistemological possibilities and inadequacies. But this proposed categorization as any theoretical or logical categorization produces its own conventional character. One area of approaching to understand archaeology is very primary and immediate has disciplinary quality. The second category of approaching to understand archaeology is interdisciplinary and historical approach or sociological as well as anthropological approach to represent archaeology comparatively among different academics discipline or sciences. The third category of approaching to understand the nature of archaeology as a discipline or as a body of scientific research has extraarchaeological and secondary or theoretical as well as philosophical quality. Philosophy of archaeology belongs to this area of extra-archaeological category of approach to understanding the nature of archaeology.