The last decades have seen a renewed interest in the study of argumentation in archaeology, particularly in response to the overproduction of weak and unreliable interpretations and explanations. Concurrently, recent appeals for scientific transparency and efficiency in the management of archaeological information in digital form have stressed the necessity of explicitly showing the processes followed. A growing body of literature has identified inference to the best explanation (IBE) as the most adequate way of interpreting archaeological data, although it has quietly existed for over a century. Despite this, the investigation of IBE-based models for recording archaeological reasoning remains a largely under-researched topic. The author concludes with a novel IBE-based model for recording archaeological argumentation.

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最佳解释推理（IBE）和考古学：旧工具，新模型

在过去的几十年里，人们对考古学论证的研究重新产生了兴趣，特别是在应对过度生产的薄弱和不可靠的解释和解释方面。同时，最近呼吁以数字形式管理考古信息的科学透明度和效率强调了明确显示所遵循过程的必要性。越来越多的文献将最佳解释推理（IBE）确定为解释考古数据的最充分方法，尽管它已经悄然存在了一个多世纪。尽管如此，对基于 IBE 的用于记录考古推理的模型的调查仍然是一个很大程度上未被研究的话题。作者最后提出了一个新的基于 IBE 的考古论证记录模型。