Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
Many new, or processual, archaeologists of the 1960s argued that Americanist archaeology became scientific only in the 1960s. The hypothesis that the rate of publication of archaeological research in Science and Scientific American increased after about 1965, as new archaeologists sought to demonstrate to their peers and other scientists that archaeology was indeed a science, is disconfirmed. The rate of archaeological publication in these journals increased after 1955 because the effort to be more scientific attributed to the processualists began earlier. Higher publication rates in both journals appear to have been influenced by an increased amount of archaeological research, a higher rate of archaeological publication generally, and increased funding. The hypothesis that editorial choice has strongly influenced what has been published in Science is confirmed; articles focusing on multidisciplinary topics rather than on narrow archaeological ones dominate the list of titles over the period from 1940 through 2003.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.2307/40035274
Volume
70
Issue
1
Repository Citation
Lyman, R. L.; O'Brien, Michael J.; and Schiffer, M. B., "Publishing Archaeology in Science and Scientific American, 1940-2003" (2005). History Faculty Publications. 19.
https://digitalcommons.tamusa.edu/hist_faculty/19
Comments
© 2005 Cambridge University Press. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.2307/40035274.
Lyman R.L., O'Brien M.J., Schiffer M.B.. 2005. Publishing archaeology in Science and Scientific American, 1940-2003.Cambridge University Press.