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Drawing in a Social Science

Scientific images represent types or particulars. According to a standard history of scientific images, with its accompanying epistemology, drawings are fit to represent types whereas machine-made images are fit to represent particulars. However, it is standard practice for archaeologists to use drawings of some particulars, notably stone tools, even though these particulars are easy to photograph. To explain this archaeological practice, this chapter presents an alternative to the standard history and the standard epistemology. Lithic drawings highlight the usefulness, in some contexts, of images that merge information presented non-conceptually and free of interpretation with information presented through conceptualized interpretation.