{"title":"Forum: The Past Not as Prelude","authors":"K. Anne Pyburn","doi":"10.1007/s11759-023-09478-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Contemporary trends in mass media communication indicate serious confusion in the public consciousness about the nature of science and the status of evidential reasoning. Archaeologists, in an effort to make esoteric research programs interesting to the public, have contributed to this problem by providing over-simplified stories and “lessons from the past” based on sketchy evidence and mystified analysis. How archaeologists present the past has important implications for the future of archaeology as a discipline, but also for the future of the planet if we continue to patronize the public and oversimplify what archaeological data show about the ramifications of sociopolitical change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44740,"journal":{"name":"Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological Congress","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11759-023-09478-1","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Contemporary trends in mass media communication indicate serious confusion in the public consciousness about the nature of science and the status of evidential reasoning. Archaeologists, in an effort to make esoteric research programs interesting to the public, have contributed to this problem by providing over-simplified stories and “lessons from the past” based on sketchy evidence and mystified analysis. How archaeologists present the past has important implications for the future of archaeology as a discipline, but also for the future of the planet if we continue to patronize the public and oversimplify what archaeological data show about the ramifications of sociopolitical change.
期刊介绍：
Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress offers a venue for debates and topical issues, through peer-reviewed articles, reports and reviews. It emphasizes contributions that seek to recenter (or decenter) archaeology, and that challenge local and global power geometries.
Areas of interest include ethics and archaeology; public archaeology; legacies of colonialism and nationalism within the discipline; the interplay of local and global archaeological traditions; theory and archaeology; the discipline’s involvement in projects of memory, identity, and restitution; and rights and ethics relating to cultural property, issues of acquisition, custodianship, conservation, and display.
Recognizing the importance of non-Western epistemologies and intellectual traditions, the journal publishes some material in nonstandard format, including dialogues; annotated photographic essays; transcripts of public events; and statements from elders, custodians, descent groups and individuals.
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