Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archaeological industry


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The result was redirect to Stone tool.  Sandstein  10:28, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Archaeological industry

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I cannot find any references for the use of this term outside a common language meaning of "historical, old industry". At best I can suggest redirecting this to Industrial history, or perhaps create some form of disambig between that term and Industrial archaeology. I found a few sources where this term is used to mean simply archaeology, or its commercial branch ; which while a bit cool (think Indiana Jones?) still needs sources. Hopefully an archaeology expert can comment on what can be done with this stub, but so far I am not seeing much besides redirecting/disambiguating this. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:46, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 16:31, 9 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Stone tool, where the concept is well-discussed. Archaeological industry is a term used in archaeology to describe the methods and artifacts of technological production in early societies. I've seen it used in association with the making of stone tools. Lithic technology is a related, but different term. This is a part of Archaeological culture, but the best discussion of archaeological industry on Wikipedia is in the section Stone tool, far better than the current article. While there is in principle no problem with a standalone article on the topic--it looks quite notable--a redirect to the above section is the best option for our readers. --Mark viking (talk) 21:18, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll also point out that while the term stone industry, which was a redirect there, is also used in similar context sometimes, it also refers to the economic sector of mining stone (I just created a stub on that under the former redirect). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:53, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree, "industry" has a specific meaning to archaeologists in this context, and means something different to most other fields. We may need to disambiguate at some point. --Mark viking (talk) 03:40, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as pointless and meaningless. Archaeologists study everything form Roman tin mines, to flaked-stone tools, and even 19th century factories.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:45, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Support redirecting -- The target is a much better account of the subject. When  I saw the title I thought it was going to be about commercial archaeology in UK, excavati9ng archaeological remains in advance of their destruction by development.  Peterkingiron (talk) 20:18, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, there is ambiguity along those lines, too. I think the sort of commercial archaeology you mention is called Rescue archaeology on wikipedia. --Mark viking (talk) 20:38, 13 March 2016 (UTC)


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 * Comment after closing This was a colossal mistake, with evidently none of the participants (bar one) knowing anything about archaeology or paleontology. This is nothing to do with industrial archaeology, but is a very important term in dealing with the Stone Age, and certainly rates an article (I can't see that now, & don't know if this was any good). The literature just uses the term "industry", and people who know absolutely nothing about archaeology would not have made the ill-informed comments above if it had been called Industry (archaeology) (or "stone industry"), which should be started, and had tried gbook searches such as Paleolithic+industry. Of course, nobody thought to inform the archaeology wikiproject. Johnbod (talk) 12:34, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Alerting is nice, but redundant: project members should check the WikiProject_Archaeology/Article_alerts and create WikiProject Deletion sorting/Archaeology (based on WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland); I encourage you to notify other members of the project to monitor such pages regularly by watchlisting (and to do it yourself). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:54, 18 March 2016 (UTC)