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A Companion to Archaeology

by: Bintliff, J. Earle, T. Peebles, Chr.S.

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Category: Theoretical Archaeology
Code: 7562
ISBN-13: 9781405149792 / 978-1-4051-4979-2
ISBN-10: 1405149795 / 1-4051-4979-5
Publisher: Blackwell
Publication Date: 2006
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Paper
Pages: 544
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 2004

 
A companion to archaeology

Author:J. L. Bintliff

Summary:Archaeology is a subject of much popular interest, with devotees ranging from armchair enthusiasts to tourists to serious academics. This Companion features essays from 27 of the world's leading authorities on different types of archaeology and aims to define the field and describe what it means to be an archaeologist. It shows that contemporary archaeology is an astonishingly broad activity, with many contrasting specializations and ways of approaching the material record of past societies.The volume introduces readers to a range of archaeologists: those who devote themselves to the philosophy or the sociology of archaeology, those who see archaeology as politics or as anthropology, and those who contend that the essence of the discipline is a hard science. Among these experts are those who read the past through art, linguistics, or the built environment

xxiv, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm


Contents:
Part 1: Thinking About Archaeology: Analytical Archaeology / STEPHEN SHENNAN
The Great Dark Book: Archaeology, Experience and Interpretation / JULIAN THOMAS
Part 2: Current Themes and Novel Departures: Archaeology and the Genetic Revolution / MARTIN JONES
Archaeology and Language: Methods and Issues / ROGER BLENCH
The Archaeology of Gender / M.L.S. SORENSON
Archaeology and Social Theory / MATTHEW JOHNSON
Materiality, Space, Time and Outcome / ROLAND FLETCHER
Archaeological Perspectives on Local Communities / FOKKE GERRITSEN
Archaeology and Technology / KEVIN GREENE
Time, Structure and Agency: the Annales, Emergent Complexity and Archaeology / JOHN BINTLIFF
Part 3: Major Traditions in Archaeology in Contemporary Perspective: Archaeological Dating / J.A.J. GOWLETT
Chronology of the Human Narrative / J.A.J. GOWLETT
Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples: Attitudes Towards Power in Ancient Oaxaca / Maarten Jansen
Classical Archaeology / IAN MORRIS
The Archaeologies of Recent History: Historical, Post-Medieval, and Modern World / CHARLES E. ORSER, JR
Animal Bones and Plant Remains / PETER ROWLEY-CONWY
Ecology in Archaeology: From Cognition to Action / FEKRI A. HASSAN
The Archaeology of Landscape / T.J. WILKINSON
Art and Archaeology / RAYMOND CORBEY, BOB LAYTON and JEREMY TANNER
Putting Infinity up on Trial: A Consideration of the Role of Scientific Thinking in Future Archaeologies / A.M. POLLARD
Experiencing Archaeological Fieldwork / JOHN BINTLIFF
Part 4: Archaeology and the Public: Public archaeology: a European perspective / TIMOTHY DARVILL
Persistent Dilemmas in American Cultural Resource Management / JOSEPH A. TAINTER
Museum Studies / LINDA ELLIS
Relating Anthropology and Archaeology / MICHAEL ROWLANDS
Archaeology and Politics / MICHAEL SHANKS
Archaeology and green issues / MARTIN BELL
 
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A Companion to Archaeology

by: Bintliff, J. Earle, T. Peebles, Chr.S.

  • ISBN-13: 9781405149792 / 978-1-4051-4979-2
  • ISBN-03: 1405149795 / 1-4051-4979-5
  • Blackwell, Oxford, 2006

Price: 39,00 EURO

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