Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork
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Author | : Hannah Cobb |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1461423376 |
Digging, recording, and writing are the three main processes that archaeologists undertake to analyze a site, yet the relationships between these processes is rarely considered critically. Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork asserts that each of these processes involves at least a bit of subjective interpretation. As a group of archaeologists work together to reconstruct an objective view of the past, at a particular time, at a particular site, their field methods and subjective interpretations affect the final analysis. This volume explores the important nature of the relationship between fieldwork, analysis, and interpretation. Containing contributions from a diverse group of archaeologists, both academic and professional, from Europe and the Americas, it critically analyzes accepted practices in field archaeology, and provide thoughtful and innovative analysis of these procedures. By combining the experiences of both academic and professional archaeologists, Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork highlights key differences and key similarities in their concerns, theories, and techniques. This volume will incite discussion on fundamental questions for all archaeologists, both old and new to the field.
Author | : Hannah Cobb |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1461423384 |
Digging, recording, and writing are the three main processes that archaeologists undertake to analyze a site, yet the relationships between these processes is rarely considered critically. Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork asserts that each of these processes involves at least a bit of subjective interpretation. As a group of archaeologists work together to reconstruct an objective view of the past, at a particular time, at a particular site, their field methods and subjective interpretations affect the final analysis. This volume explores the important nature of the relationship between fieldwork, analysis, and interpretation. Containing contributions from a diverse group of archaeologists, both academic and professional, from Europe and the Americas, it critically analyzes accepted practices in field archaeology, and provide thoughtful and innovative analysis of these procedures. By combining the experiences of both academic and professional archaeologists, Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork highlights key differences and key similarities in their concerns, theories, and techniques. This volume will incite discussion on fundamental questions for all archaeologists, both old and new to the field.
Author | : Archaeological Institute Of America |
Publisher | : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1992-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780840382368 |
Author | : Gavin Lucas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134564317 |
This work takes as its starting point the role of fieldwork and how this has changed over the past 150 years. The author argues against progressive accounts of fieldwork and instead places it in its broader intellectual context to critically examine the relationship between theoretical paradigms and everyday archaeological practice. In providing a much-needed historical and critical evaluation of current practice in archaeology, this book opens up a topic of debate which affects all archaeologists, whatever their particular interests.
Author | : Archaeological Institute of America |
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Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : Heather Burke |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 075910882X |
This comprehensive handbook provides step-by-step instructions on how to do archaeological fieldwork in North America. The wealth of diagrams, photos, maps and checklists clearly illustrate how to design, fund, research, map, record, interpret, photograph, and present archaeological surveys and excavations.
Author | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology |
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Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : John Carman |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 205 |
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ISBN | : 3031698282 |
Author | : Gavin Lucas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107010268 |
This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views. Gavin Lucas argues that archaeological theory has become both too fragmented and disconnected from the particular nature of archaeological evidence. The book examines three ways of understanding the archaeological record - as historical sources, through formation theory, and as material culture - then reveals ways to connect these three domains through a reconsideration of archaeological entities and archaeological practice. Ultimately, Lucas calls for a rethinking of the nature of the archaeological record and the kind of history and narratives written from it.
Author | : Oliver J. T. Harris |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317497457 |
Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological thought. It charts the emergence of the new emphasis on relations as well as engaging with other current theoretical trends and the thinkers archaeologists regularly employ. Bringing together different strands of global archaeological theory and placing them in dialogue, the book explores the similarities and differences between different contemporary trends in theory while also highlighting potential strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Written in a way to maximise its accessibility, in direct contrast to many of the sources on which it draws, Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium is an essential guide to cutting-edge theory for students and for professionals wishing to reacquaint themselves with this field.