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[0] Archaeology [1] Interdisciplinarity: we approach the study of the remains of past culture with every available method The study object was once alive and dynamic [2] A lot of story telling without a solid base in the evidence Reductionism: human culture as a system, human individual as an abstract actor [3] 
Inspiring: restoring the balance I found that the answers to questions too often consisted of a set of two contrasting views – in my case processualism / quantitative positivism / reductionism vs. postmodern / storytelling, post-processualism / qualitative, the second often being a reaction to the first. Both are lacking the aspect which is prominent in the other, so how do we bring the two together – outlining the limits of our storytelling plus integrating (reductionism) specialist strands of evidence.
2009 Steps shaping my discipline
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