And there you go again in your quixotic attempt to paint me as a believer in conspiracies. There you go again calling what I say "new age" despite the fact it is unique and no new age ideas are similar to my own. There you go again ignoring every single fact and idea I put into a post.
You are supporting "Look and See Science" which has been growing since the time of Champollion. Its inroads are exploding everywhere and will continue until the planet does as well if we don't get off our present course.
That there IS NO SCIENCE IN ARCHAEOLOGY is an observable fact just as is that Egyptological Peers are now meeting to determine reality itself without the data necessary to understand the ancient culture. This is now pervasive in most branches of science. No, Peers are not engaging in any sort of conspiracy to mislead us. Rather They know not what They do because They are following on the footsteps of the past and we got off the road in the past. We made bad assumptions and now we have derived what They each sincerely believe is reality from bad assumptions.
Again you will ignore every fact and every thought in this post and instead look for ad hominins and semantical arguments. You will not engage in the argument and instead tell me what you believe.
Why don't you tell me why you believe it's OK for Peers to determine reality without ever seeking the data? You won't because you ignore everything I post and ESPECIALLY direct questions.
For one you are making straw man again.
Peer Review belonged to those are referred to experts that review falsifiable hypotheses or scientific theories and researches of any branches of Natural Science.
Natural Science is divided broadly as Life Science and Physical Science.
Life Science are broken down into many biological fields and sub fields including anatomy, zoology, botany, biochemistry, biophysics, microbiology, molecular biology, palaeontology, etc.
Medicine can falls under Life Science, but not any psychology-related medicine, because all psychology and related fields of psychology will fall under the very broad umbrella of Social Science; I will get to Social Science later.
The other Natural Science - Physical Science - can broken down to a number of different branches:
- physics,
- chemistry,
- Earth Science
- and astronomy.
Each of these branches will have their own fields of studies and subfields.
There are only peer review of Natural Science, not for Social Science.
Social Science related to human behaviors, human activities and human cultures.
Different Social Science would include history, archaeology (of both history and prehistory of human activities and cultures), anthropology, politics (including political science), laws, ethics, anything related to human psychology, which I have already mentioned.
What I am not too sure about whether the branches and fields of Humanities falls under the category of Social Science or not. So I will leave Humanities and Social Science as open questions.
Humanities include studies of languages and literature (are very useful to historians and archaeologists, particularly written languages and philology, and that’s the very reason why I am not sure if Humanities fall under Social Science or not), all forms of arts, like visual arts, liberal arts, architecture, music, etc.
None of these (Social Science) will be reviewed by Peer Review.
The reasons why Social Science don’t fall under the Peer Review, is because human psychology and cultures are too varied and too complex.
Sure, their works may be reviewed by panels of experts, but unlike Peer Review, things like archaeology and history are not subjected to Falsifiability and the Scientific Method, which are requirements that the peers look for in reviewing the hypotheses/theories and the experiments and test results made available with the hypotheses/theories.
You don’t need science degree in Natural Science to become an archaeologist.
Archaeologists don’t need science to study, read or translate ancient writings and inscriptions. Archaeologists don’t need science to categorize styles of art works and pottery. Archaeologists don’t need science to studying styles and architecture of some buildings, but if they do want to know anything were built they may ask some civil engineers for their expertise. Archaeologists don’t need science to excavate sites.
The physical and life science in archaeology, is when they actually the physical remains of deceased, learning how they died, taking DNA samples for testing and comparisons, or when a person investigate the physical and chemical properties of objects, studying the layer of strata when sites and bodies were found, dating anything using radiometric dating methods, and so on. It is these science
Archaeologists can learn these science-related fields (like dna, radiometric methods, geology, civil engineering), but these are not requirements of being archaeologists.