When the history of science in prehistoric or Bronze Age societies is described, what one finds is normally a description of technologies and of that sort of inherent practical knowledge which these technologies presuppose. This state of our art reflects perfectly well the state of the arts in these societies: They present us with no specific, socially organized, and systematic search for and maintenance of cognitively coherent knowledge concerning the natural or practical world – i.e., with nothing like our own scientific endeavour.
Source: Science in Context
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