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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. Introduces the reader to a range of archaeologists: those who devote themselves to the philosophy of archaeology, those who see archaeology as politics or anthropology, and those who contend that the essence of the discipline is a hard science. Review "A stimulating source of ideas, and a conspectus of how broadly and deeply many archaeologists are thinking about the way their discipline relates to the modern world." Times Higher Education Supplement "The perspectives represented are broad and refreshing, accessible to a non-specialist, but authoritative ... This volume is very well suited as a teaching text for advanced undergraduate

Who reads A Companion to Archaeology (Blackwell Companion to Archaeology)?

Author

John Bintliff; Timothu Earle; Christopher Peebles

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780470998601

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, History