Understanding the archaeological record

by Lucas, Gavin

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Title Statements

Full title :Understanding the archaeological record / Gavin Lucas.

Summary

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.

1.-- The trouble with theory 2.-- The total record 3.-- Formation theory 4.-- Materialized culture 5.-- Archaeological entities 6.-- Archaeological interventions 7.-- A 'new' social archaeology? Read more at http://www.cambridge.org/es/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeological-science/understanding-archaeological-record#LR6GG7osm3VxoIyd.99.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:XIV, 306 p. : : il. ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521279697, 0521279690
oclc:on1011628918

Subjects

Antiquities Archaeology Archaeology -- Methodology Archaeology -- Philosophy Arqueologia Arqueología -- Metodología History -- Sources Material culture Ontology Restos arqueológicos Social archaeology