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Археологическият запис като информация и ентропия
The Archaeological Record as Information and Entropy

Author(s): Serghey Gherdjikov
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Epistemology, Semiology, Contemporary Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Hermeneutics
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: archaeological record; archaeological information; archaeological entropy; reporting systems; archaeological experiment

Summary/Abstract: The archaeological record is information left in artifacts and biofacts from an extinct culture. It is the result of a process of growth of entropy in the site, which destroys the structures of culture. I theorize on archaeological information and archaeological entropy – the missing information about the site. From archaeological record to virtual reconstruction, information is extracted from the entropy of the extinct cultural form/process in the archaeological record. Archaeological entropy is differential and depends on the material, not the culture.

  • Issue Year: 31/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 349-363
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian