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  2. Direct historical approach - Wikipedia

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    The historical data then becomes the basis of analogy and homology for the study of the prehistoric communities at both the particular site and other sites in the region. The main issue with the approach is that in many parts of the world there is no direct continuity between historically documented communities and the prehistoric occupants of ...

  3. Ethnoarchaeology - Wikipedia

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    One popular method in ethnoarchaeology is the use of the direct historical approach. This approach relies on living cultures that may be closely genetically or spatially related to the archaeological culture of interest in order to form analogies that may be used to explain findings.

  4. Processual archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Processual archaeology originated in American archaeology, where analysing historical change over time had proved difficult with existing technology. Processual archaeology (formerly, the New Archaeology) is a form of archaeological theory.

  5. Is AI like the A-bomb? Washington looks to history to ... - AOL

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    Lessons from the 1800s. Former Federal Communication Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, who recently wrote a book about technological analogies through history, suggests that such comparisons are a ...

  6. Dialectical materialism - Wikipedia

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    Economist and philosopher Ludwig von Mises wrote a critique of Marxist materialism which he published as a part of his 1957 work Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution. H. B. Acton described Marxism as "a philosophical farrago". [59] Max Eastman argued that dialectical materialism lacks a psychological basis. [60]

  7. Historical method - Wikipedia

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    Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...

  8. Historical criticism - Wikipedia

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    Historical criticism (also known as the historical-critical method (HCM) or higher criticism, [1] in contrast to lower criticism or textual criticism) [2] is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts to understand "the world behind the text" [3] and emphasizes a process that "delays any assessment of scripture's truth and relevance until after the act of ...

  9. Neogrammarian - Wikipedia

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    Historicism: the chief goal of linguistic investigation is the description of the historical change of a language. Analogy: if the premise of the inviolability of sound laws fails, analogy can be applied as an explanation if plausible. Thus, exceptions are understood to be a (regular) adaptation to a related form.