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Mortar and Pestle or Cooking Vessel? When Archaeology Makes Progress Through Failed Analogies
Most optimistic accounts of analogies in archaeology focus on cases
where analogies lead to accurate or well-supported interpretations of the past. This
chapter offers a complementary argument: analogies can also provide a valuable
form of understanding of cultural and social phenomena when they fail, in the sense
of either being shown inaccurate or the evidence being insufficient to determine
their accuracy
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