Imagination et construction mentale La fabrique du discours scientifique

• Other Authors: Orellana-González, Eliza (Editor), Spinelli Sanchez, Océane (Editor), Balbin-Estanguet, Tom (Editor), Sergues, Victor (Editor), TAFFIN, Ninon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Pessac Ausonius Éditions 2022
• Series: Schol@ 1
• Subjects: Landscape archaeology; History: earliest times to present day; imagination; research tools; scientific approach; mental construction; scientific discourse; archaeology; archaeometry; method; methodology; epigraphy; epistemology; historiography; geophysical prospection; palynology; integrated approach; intercultural processes; open settlements; urbanisation phenomenon; environments; stereotypes; clichés identity; ancient collection recovery; lithic industries; Gallo-Roman sculptures; Gallic divinity; Celtic mythology; ceramics; obsidian; adornment; torque; Gaul; Barbarian; Neanderthal; Homo sapiens; Middle Gravettian; South-Western France; La Tène; Iron Age; postclassic; Noaillian; Rayssian; Western Mexico; Aztatlán; Abri du Facteur; Cernunnos; Pillar of the Nautes
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Imagination and mental construction are processes attached to the development of scientific discourse and research in archaeological sciences. Past human groups built symbolic thoughts, shaped and exploited their environments, and these concepts enabled them to design new objects from raw materials. This book uses diachronic and interdisciplinary case studies to examine how imagination and mental construction interact to produce ideas or material objects in past societies and in current research. It also examines the elaboration of scientific discourse, a process that is based on the researcher's own mental constructs and that is enriched today by a critical approach to past discourses as well as by the contribution of new methods and methodologies.