Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415073308 ISBN 13: 9780415073301

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value systems on the evidence which they presented.

About this title

About the Author:

Ian Hodder is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. Michael Shanks is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales. Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last, and Gaving Lucas are engaged in research at the University of Cambridge.

Review:

'The quality of the papers is high and represents an up-to-date coverage of the many prominent issues with which archaeology is coming to grips. Interpretating Archaeology is a salient and timely production and would be an ideal acquisition for students. So, as Whitley indirectly cautions all readers, peruse the whole book; your understanding of current Anglo-American theoretical archaeology will be considerably advanced. ' - ARC

' Interpreting Archaeology is a salient and timely production and would be an ideal acquisition for students.' - Archaeological Review, Cambridge

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415073308
• ISBN 13: 9780415073301
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Alexandri Alexandra, Buchli Victor, Carman John, Hodder Ian, Last Jonathan, Lucas Gavin, Shanks Michael