begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:38:03PM -0500: [snip] > WHich is why I refuse to call archaeology a science. Science is > falsifiable and testable. Physics theories can be tested. Chemistry can > be tested. Archaeology can't. Its conjecture based on partial evidence > and hearsay. It can be interesting, but it isn't science.
It's certainly scholarship. It requires a lot of the techniques of science, and a fair amount of careful reasoning. But in the end, it's all just Just-So stories. May be true, may not, but you can't really KNOW. -Stewart
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