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Researching the Archaeological Past through Imagined Narratives: A Necessary Fiction (Routledge Studies in Archaeology) by Daniël van Helden (editor), Robert Witcher (editor) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Archaeological interpretation is an imaginative act. Stratigraphy and artefacts do not tell us what the past was like; that is the task of the archaeologist. The diverse group of contributors to this volume address the relationship between archaeology and imagination through the medium of historical fiction and fictive techniques, both as consumers and as producers. The fictionalisation of archaeological research is often used to disseminate the results of scholarly or commercial archaeology
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Daniël van Helden (editor), Robert Witcher (editor)
- Publisher
- Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781351398688
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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