Technoscience proposes the 'the death of man' in a Posthuman movement to symmetricize things-humans. As a curative for the long-standing 'theoretical' and 'abstract' focus of Philosophy of Science (particularly the Anglo-American tradition) - contexted itself within an even more sedimented predisposition in general Western philosophy back to Platonic Ideals to center human consciousness in the search for representational connections to reality - such technoscientific (re)habilitations of things have confronted a human sciences often directing itself in a simultaneous (confused) avowal of 'materiality' and 'discourse'. To submit the perspicacity of recent Technoscience authors (I will primarily restrict consideration to Pickering, Ihde, Latour, Haraway and other A-N-T practitioners) to a 'trial of strength' in the appropriate context of archaeology ('study of people through things'), I will attempt to argue its applicability to the contentious issue of 'multivocal archaeology' and the mandate of indigenous groups to participate in archaeological knowledge constitution in the model of democratized participation . . . read more at [link]