A companion to archaeology
A Companion to Archaeology features essays from 27 of the world's leading authorities on different types of archaeology that aim to define the field and describe what it means to be an archaeologist. Shows that contemporary archaeology is an astonishingly broad activity, with many contrasting specializations and ways of approaching the material record of past societies. Includes essays by experts in reading the past through art, linguistics, or the built environment, and by professionals who present the past through heritage management and museums. Introd
1 online resource (xxiv, 544 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781405128872, 9780631213024, 9780470998618, 9780470998601, 9786612349744, 9781282349742, 9781280284359, 9786610284351, 9780470701256, 1405128879, 0631213023, 047099861X, 0470998601, 6612349743, 1282349740, 1280284358, 6610284350, 0470701250
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A Companion to Archaeology; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Thinking About Archaeology; Analytical Archaeology; The Great Dark Book: Archaeology, Experience, and Interpretation; Part II Current Themes and Novel Departures; Archaeology and the Genetic Revolution; Archaeology and Language: Methods and Issues; The Archaeology of Gender; Archaeology and Social Theory; Materiality, Space, Time, and Outcome; Archaeological Perspectives on Local Communities; Archaeology and Technology Time, Structure, and Agency: The Annales, Emergent Complexity, and ArchaeologyPart III Major Traditions in Archaeology in Contemporary Perspective; Archaeological Dating; Chronology and the Human Narrative; Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples: Attitudes Towards Power in Ancient Oaxaca; Classical Archaeology; The Archaeologies of Recent History: Historical, Post-Medieval, and Modern-World; Animal Bones and Plant Remains; Ecology in Archaeology: From Cognition to Action; The Archaeology of Landscape; Archaeology and Art Putting Infinity Up On Trial: A Consideration of the Role of Scientific Thinking in Future ArchaeologiesExperiencing Archaeological Fieldwork; Part IV Archaeology and the Public; Public Archaeology: A European Perspective; Persistent Dilemmas in American Cultural Resource Management; Museum Studies; Relating Anthropology and Archaeology; Archaeology and Politics; Archaeology and Green Issues; Index
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