Theoretical Foundations

Position papers and manifestos establishing Archaeobytology's intellectual framework. These essays articulate the discipline's core commitments, methodological positioning, and contributions to digital studies.

Disciplinary Positioning

Foundational essays coming soon

Future essays will include:

  • • Archaeobytology as Discipline: Between Media Studies and Computer Science
  • • The Archive-Anvil Dialectic: Preservation and Creation as Unified Practice
  • • Digital Materialism: Why Platforms Are Infrastructure
  • • Against Platform Solutionism: Critique Without Blueprints

Methodological Commitments

Methods essays coming soon

Future essays will include:

  • • Empiricism Over Ideology: Evidence-Based Platform Critique
  • • Historical Grounding: Why Digital Archaeology Matters
  • • The Three Pillars Framework: Declaration, Connection, Ground
  • • Sovereignty as Structural Property, Not Aspiration

Intellectual Contributions

Contribution essays coming soon

Future resources will include:

  • • What Archaeobytology Adds to Platform Studies
  • • Distinguishing Genuine Solutions from Sovereignty Theater
  • • The Translation Problem: From Wisdom to Design
  • • Building Intellectual Authority Through Methodological Rigor