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Creating the Human Past: An Epistemology of Pleistocene Archaeology
Robert G. Bednarik
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Description for Creating the Human Past: An Epistemology of Pleistocene Archaeology
Paperback. This book examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. Num Pages: 186 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white. BIC Classification: HDD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 177 x 11. Weight in Grams: 504.
This book examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. The theoretical basis of the discipline is deliberated in some detail, leading to the diagnosis that there are in fact numerous archaeologies, all with different notions of commensurability, ideologies, and purposes. Their various perspectives of what archaeology is and does are considered and the range of views of the human past is illuminated in this book. How humans became ... Read more
This book examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. The theoretical basis of the discipline is deliberated in some detail, leading to the diagnosis that there are in fact numerous archaeologies, all with different notions of commensurability, ideologies, and purposes. Their various perspectives of what archaeology is and does are considered and the range of views of the human past is illuminated in this book. How humans became ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Archaeopress Archaeology
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
500g
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905739639
SKU
V9781905739639
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99-13
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