2017
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-017-9351-1
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Experimental Design and Experimental Inference in Stone Artifact Archaeology

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“…Experiments, on the other hand, have high internal validity due to their repeatability and the potential for controlling the variables, but can never precisely replicate the behavior behind the archeological record. Lin et al 2018 use these terms in a different way when discussing the reliability of inferences derived from experiments. They state that three kinds of inferential validity play a role in experiments.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Experiments, on the other hand, have high internal validity due to their repeatability and the potential for controlling the variables, but can never precisely replicate the behavior behind the archeological record. Lin et al 2018 use these terms in a different way when discussing the reliability of inferences derived from experiments. They state that three kinds of inferential validity play a role in experiments.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The third kind of inferential validity is ecological validity, which basically refers to how well the results from experimental design repeat what is observed in the field. Here we use these terms as per Lin et al 2018. Early controlled experiments on flake production (Speth 1972;Faulkner 1972;Bonnichsen 1977;Dibble and Whittaker 1981;Pelcin and Dibble 1995, see also Dibble and Rezek 2009) tended to be reasonably high in internal validity in being able to isolate or vary in a controlled fashion the effects of any single independent variable. Unfortunately, due largely to their experimental design, they were low in ecological validity: to put it simply, the flakes produced by these experiments bore little resemblance to those found in archeological sites because the shapes of the cores used did not resemble those used in prehistoric assemblages (see Rezek et al 2016 for review).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Un último concepto central es el de uniformitarismo metodológico. Este acercamiento propone que ciertas propiedades, características o procesos del universo se mantienen constantes o uniformes en el tiempo y el espacio, y, que el tratamiento de los mismos debe ser intelectualmente independiente de aquello que deseamos investigar (Ascher, 1961;Domínguez-Rodrigo, 2008;Gifford-Gonzalez, 1981;Lin, Rezek, y Dibble, 2018). Por ejemplo, para el caso de una roca que contenga un lascado aislado, puede suponerse que la mecánica de fractura de las rocas en el pasado es la misma que en el presente, y que, a su vez, muchos de los agentes que pudieron producirlas en el pasado, pueden ser observados en el presente o sus acciones ser reproducidas en la actualidad de forma experimental.…”
Section: Algunos Aspectos Básicosunclassified
“…La validez interna, por su parte, depende de la precisión del experimento en el contexto experimental, donde debe ser posible determinar cuál de las variables independientes es la responsable de la variación en las variables dependientes bajo estudio. De este modo, cuanto mejor se replique a nivel experimental el contexto arqueológico que nos interesa comprender, más bajo será el nivel de error (Lin et al, 2018). La primera cuestión a tener en cuenta al momento de diseñar un experimento es el control.…”
Section: Interpretación Del Problema: Algunas Cuestiones Sobren Experunclassified
“…The reported experiments make no apparent effort to control for any of these variables, casting doubt on the internal validity of the results ( sensu Lin et al . 2017).…”
Section: Experimental Controlmentioning
confidence: 99%