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The philosophy of archaeology seeks to investigate the foundations, methods and implications of the discipline of archaeology in order to further understanding of the human past and present. Central questions include what is archaeology? What is the theoretical basis of archaeology? How should archaeology conceive of time? Why, and for who, is archaeology practiced. These are just some examples of the epistemological, ethical and theoretical concerns at the heart of the practice of archaeology. In addition to these general questions, the philosophy of archaeology is also concerned with fieldwork methodology, integration of theory and collaboration with other disciplines, theories of measurement and data representation. There is currently no consensus on the nature of the problems in the philosophy of archaeology, or indeed in some cases, whether a philosophy of archaeology should, or even can, exist. As such, the discipline is in its infancy, with even its existence or relevance disputed by some archaeologists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Science of Archaeology | Issue 3 | Philosophy Now )〕 But it is generally recognised that an awareness of the theoretical aspects of the subject is important for designing research, controlling inference and interpretation and in classification. ==History== (詳細はmythology. With the rise of complex civilisations such as Sumer, Babylon, Egypt and Persia, and with their increasingly sophisticated priesthood, these mythological explanations became also more sophisticated. These philosophies claimed that there was a beginning, an origin of all things, and conceived it as a formless void or Chaos out of which all matter was created. These explanations established the idea of a first principle or origin underlying and uniting all things, an idea that was passed into Greek as the word ''arché''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「philosophy of archaeology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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