Hacia una historia praxiológica de la arqueología prehistórica española. La arqueología mallorquina como caso de estudio

Abstract

This paper examines the different ways of writing the history of Spanish archaeology in order to explore the different philosophies of science underlying them. We argue that the epistemic premises of these histories are not useful to study the last twenty years of Spanish archaeology because they cannot overcome the so-called chasm existing in the present-day situation between research archaeology, contract archaeology and Cultural Resource Management archaeology. In order to illustrate how a different point of view, based on the praxeological philosophy of science developed by Javier Echeverría, can enable the reconciliation between the different factions, an analysis is made of the history of Majorcan archaeology in the last fifty years.