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G_3_20 — Kuhn's Paradigm Shifts: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) introduced the concept of the paradigm shift — the idea that science does not progress by linear accumulation of facts, but through periodic, discontinuous
G_3_21 — Critical Realism: Roy Bhaskar and Stratified Ontology
Critical realism is a philosophical movement founded by Roy Bhaskar (1944–2014) that proposes a stratified ontology — reality consists of three nested domains (the Real, the Actual, and the Empirical) — and argues that s
G_3_28 — Phlogiston Theory: Productive Fiction and the Birth of Chemistry
Phlogiston theory — developed by German chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl in the early 18th century — held that all combustible materials contain a fire-principle called phlogiston (from the Greek phlogistós, "burn
G_3_26 — Resonance as Universal Information Encoding
Resonance — the selective amplification of energy at characteristic frequencies — appears across physical, biological, and cognitive systems as a substrate-independent information-encoding mechanism. From radio receivers
G_3_12 — Morphic Resonance and Formative Causation
Morphic resonance is a hypothesis proposed by Rupert Sheldrake (1981, A New Science of Life) that posits the existence of morphic fields — non-local, non-energetic fields that carry information about the habits (forms an
G_3_27 — Morphic Resonance vs Epigenetic Inheritance: A Rigorous Comparison
For decades, Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance hypothesis — that organisms inherit form and behavior through a non-material "morphic field" carrying patterns from past similar systems — has been the most prominent fri
G_3_24 — Post-Normal Science: Funtowicz, Ravetz, and Uncertainty
Post-normal science (PNS) is a framework for understanding and managing scientific inquiry when facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high, and decisions urgent — conditions that characterize many of the most cr
G_2_15 — Cognitive Archaeology — Mind in the Archaeological Record
Cognitive archaeology investigates the cognitive abilities, mental processes, and symbolic capacities of past peoples through the material record they left behind — seeking to understand not just what ancient people did,
G_2_04 — Complexity Economics and Ancient Trade Systems
Complexity economics — the application of complex systems theory, non-linear dynamics, and agent-based modeling to economic phenomena — provides a powerful modern framework for understanding ancient and premodern trade s
G_2_16 — Phylogenetic Methods in Material Culture Analysis
Phylogenetic methods — originally developed in evolutionary biology to reconstruct the branching history of species from shared inherited characteristics — have been adapted for analyzing the evolutionary (descent-with-m
G_2_13 — Fractal Analysis of Ancient Structures and Settlements
Fractal analysis applies the mathematics of self-similar, scale-invariant geometry — developed by Benoît Mandelbrot (The Fractal Geometry of Nature, 1982) — to the study of ancient architectures, settlement patterns, and
G_2_18 — Digital Humanities and Computational Text Analysis
Digital humanities (DH) encompasses the application of computational methods — text mining, natural language processing (NLP), statistical analysis, data visualization, geographic information systems (GIS), network analy
G_2_11 — Ethnoarchaeology — Living Analogies for Past Behavior
Ethnoarchaeology is the study of living or recently documented societies — their material culture, spatial organization, subsistence strategies, craft production, architecture, refuse disposal, and social practices — wit
G_2_19 — GIS Methodology in Archaeology: Spatial Analysis and Digital Landscapes
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have transformed archaeological research from site-centered excavation reports into spatially integrated landscape analysis. GIS enables archaeologists to overlay multiple data layers
G_2_08 — Archaeogenetics — DNA Revolution in Prehistory
Archaeogenetics — the extraction and analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) from archaeological human, animal, and plant remains — has revolutionized our understanding of human migration, population structure, admixture, kinship
G_2_09 — Network Analysis in Archaeology — Trade, Communication, Influence
Network analysis — rooted in graph theory and social network analysis (SNA) — provides formal mathematical tools for modeling and analyzing the structure of relationships between archaeological entities: sites, regions,
G_2_07 — Power Laws, Scale-Free Networks, and Ancient Systems
A power law is a mathematical relationship of the form $P(x) \propto x^{-\alpha}$ in which the frequency of an event is inversely proportional to some power of its size — meaning that small events are extremely common, l
G_2_03 — Bayesian Reasoning and Archaeological Inference
Bayesian reasoning — the systematic updating of probabilities for hypotheses as new evidence is acquired — has transformed archaeology, chronology, and the evaluation of disputed historical claims since the 1990s. At its
G_2_06 — Landscape Archaeology and Spatial Analysis
Landscape archaeology — the study of how past peoples shaped, inhabited, and understood their physical environments at scales beyond the individual site — has evolved from early settlement-pattern surveys into a sophisti
G_2_05 — Graph Theory and Knowledge Network Analysis
Graph theory — the mathematical study of networks of nodes (vertices) connected by edges (links) — provides a rigorous framework for analyzing the structure of connections in systems ranging from ancient social hierarchi
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