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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817349403321

Titolo

Archaeology in the making : conversations through a discipline with Susan E. Alcock. [et al.] / / edited by William L. Rathje, Michael Shanks and Christopher Witmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-18527-5

1-138-10834-0

1-283-91960-5

0-203-08347-4

1-136-18528-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlcockSusan E

RathjeWilliam L

ShanksMichael

WitmoreChristopher

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology - Philosophy

Archaeology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The archaeological imagination -- pt. 2. The workings of archaeology -- pt. 3. Politics.

Sommario/riassunto

Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come to fascinate archaeologists over the last forty years or so, those that concern major events in human history such as the origins of agriculture and the state, and questions about the way archaeologists go about their work. Many of the conversations highlight quite intensely held personal