Author : Bruce G. Trigger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2006-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521840767
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Author : Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442226994
In Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr., provides a commonsense guide to applying critical thinking skills to archaeological questions and evidence.
Author : Charles E. Orser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1538177242
In the second edition of Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr. provides an updated guide to the critical thinking skills archaeologists use to unravel the stories of history’s buried past.
Author : Alison Wylie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2002-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520223608
"No other work in this field covers the history of important conceptual issues in archaeology in such a deep and knowledgable way, bringing both philosophical and archeological sophistication to bear on all of the issues treated. Wylie’s work in Thinking from Things is original, scholarly, and creative. This book is for anyone who wants to understand contemporary archaeological theory, how it came to be as it is, its relationship with other disciplines, and its prospects for the future."—Merrilee Salmon, author of Philosophy and Archaeology "Wylie is a reasonable and astute thinker who lucidly and persuasively makes genuinely constructive criticisms of archaeological thought and practice and very useful suggestions for how to proceed. She commands both philisophy and archaeology to an unusual degree. Having her articles together in Thinking from Things, with much new material extending and integrating them, is a major contribution that will be widely welcomed among archaeologists—both professionals and students, philosophers and historians of science, and social scientists."—George L. Cowgill, Arizona State University
Author : Matthew Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1444360418
Archaeological Theory, 2nd Edition is the most current and comprehensive introduction to the field available. Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text offers students an ideal entry point to the major concepts and ongoing debates in archaeological research. New edition of a popular introductory text that explores the increasing diversity of approaches to archaeological theory Features more extended coverage of 'traditional' or culture-historical archaeology Examines theory across the English-speaking world and beyond Offers greatly expanded coverage of evolutionary theory, divided into sociocultural and Darwinist approaches Includes an expanded glossary, bibliography, and useful suggestions for further readings
Author : Bruce G. Trigger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521338189
Bruce Trigger's new book is the first ever to examine the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting trends apparent in archaeological thought are defined and the author seeks to determine the extent to which these trends were a reflection of the personal and collective interests of archaeologists as these relate - in the West at least - to the fluctuating fortunes of the middle classes. While subjective influences have been powerful, Professor Trigger argues that the gradual accumulation of archaeological data has exercised a growing constraint on interpretation. In turn, this has increased the objectivity of archaeological research and enhanced its value for understanding the entire span of human history and the human condition in general.
Author : C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521406437
American archaeology today encompasses a huge range of approaches and draws eclectically on a multitude of academic disciplines. Until now, however, there has been no book seeking to separate the main strands and traditions of research and present a rounded picture of American archaeological thought in all its diversity. The seventeen essays in Archaeological Thought in America describe recent theoretical advances and present substantive interpretations of prehistoric data drawn from a variety of cultures and time-frames, including Mesoamerica, Central Asia, India and China. The contributors include many of the leading North American archaeologists of this generation.
Author : R. Alexander Bentley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0759100322
This handbook, a companion to the authoritative Handbook of Archaeological Methods, gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists on all aspects of the latest thinking about archaeological theory. It is the definitive resource for understanding how to think about archaeology.
Author : Matthew Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405100141
Archaeological Theory, 2nd Edition is the most current and comprehensive introduction to the field available. Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text offers students an ideal entry point to the major concepts and ongoing debates in archaeological research. New edition of a popular introductory text that explores the increasing diversity of approaches to archaeological theory Features more extended coverage of 'traditional' or culture-historical archaeology Examines theory across the English-speaking world and beyond Offers greatly expanded coverage of evolutionary theory, divided into sociocultural and Darwinist approaches Includes an expanded glossary, bibliography, and useful suggestions for further readings
Author : David Macaulay
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 1979-10-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0547770723
It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.
