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Scratching through the surface
Seubers, Jorn Frans
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Publication date: 2018
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Seubers, J. F. (2018). Scratching through the surface: Revisiting the archaeology of city and country in Crustumerium and north Latium Vetus between 850 and 300 BC. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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1. Studies of ancient city-states generally pay too little attention to ruralisation, as it is assumed to be an archetypical result of urbanisation.
2. Survey archaeologists have become too afraid to state that “absence of evidence is evidence of absence” and spend too much time trying to quantify what they cannot see.
3. A diachronic spatial analysis of survey results is incomplete without presenting the raw data that provides the (falsifiable) interpretative basis.
4. Having exhausted the possibilities of surveys and prospection, large- scale and long-term excavations are the only tools left to further develop our understanding of urban and rural Crustumerium.
5. Recycling archaeological interpretations derived from legacy data calls for explicit and systematized reflexivity.
6. Maps should be scrutinized as interpretations, rather than presentations of data.
7. Archaeology is like trying to solve a puzzle of which all the pieces are initially missing and in which every recovered piece changes our idea of the puzzle as a whole.
8. Everybody who starts a family during his/her PhD proves that "you can never be wise and be in love at the same time" (Bob Dylan).
