Where Pen Meets Trowel, Crossroads of Disciplines: Precipitating Causes and Latent Causal Conditions
Channel: ArchaeologySouthwest
Date: 2013-07-30

On July 23, 2013, Richard Flint shared his insights into the disciplinary differences between archaeology and history. 

ABSTRACT:
Although history and archaeology can be and sometimes are complementary disciplines, their different evidence bases and developmental trajectories tend to push them apart, even make them suspicious of one another. If we focus briefly, however, on the incompleteness of each discipline's explanatory preferences and research habits, it may be possible to encourage the kind of disciplinary syncretism that has always seemed possible, but is all too often disappointingly beyond reach.