| a. | For the history and objectivity of science, see e.g. Kuhn 1962. This was an influential work that left a mark in the scientific environment of its era. It must be stressed however that Kuhn relies on an immense amount of narrative information lacking largely other types of illustrations which would make the reading and understanding easier. Attention is constantly given to natural science and the many achievements of this field. Science in itself is viewed within the constraints of the tested result at the time. This emphasis is rather hard to adapt to that degree of ambiguity that both humanities and social sciences impose. An additional matter regards the concept of revolution. It remains rather unclear why the gradual progress and development in science is seen as a revolutionary process. – [Esmeralda Agolli, July 2014] |
| b. | For application of hermeneutics in archaeology, see e.g. Johnsen and Olsen 1992. – [Esmeralda Agolli, August 2014] |
| c. | For Foucault's archaeology on knowledge, see especially Foucault 1972 – [Esmeralda Agolli, September 2014] |
| d. | For a parable for the archaeology of the 1980's see Flannery 1982, Renfrew 1980 – [Esmeralda Agolli, October 2014] |
| e. | Binford 2001: how to create the research query, the importance of the subject matter. – [Esmeralda Agolli, September 2014] |
| f. | For an overview on the analogical inference and its scientific and objective usage in archaeology see e.g. Wylie 1985b – [Esmeralda Agolli, September 2014] |
| g. | Childe 1946: A sucessful marriage between Archaeology and Anthropology mixed with some Marxist salience. – [Esmeralda Agolli, September 2014] |
| h. | Read and LeBlanc 1978: How to achieve scientific results on deductive and inductive level. – [Esmeralda Agolli, October 2014] |
| i. | Trigger 1984 Exterior factors in Archaeology. – [Esmeralda Agolli, October 2014] |
| j. | For the blurring of the subject-object opposition in excavation, see Yarrow 2003 – [Laerke Recht, September 2014] |
| k. | See Lucas 2001a for discussion on the detrimental effect of a rhetoric of destruction in archaeological discourse. – [Laerke Recht, September 2014] |
| l. | Note here the difference between stratigraphy and seriation as methods of measuring time: seriation is a procedure that can be replicated, whereas stratigraphic excavation is not O'Brien and Lyman 2002. – [Laerke Recht, October 2015] |
| m. | Arguing for the possibility of objectivity, if understood correctly, see O'Meara 2001. – [Laerke Recht, April 2016] |
| n. | Observers relating to data, e.g. Gero 1996; Shanks & Tilley 1992. – [Laerke Recht, July 2016] |