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A History of Archaeological Thought / Bruce G. Trigger.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xx, 710 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521840767 (hc.)
  • 0521840767 (hc.)
  • 9780521600491 (pbk.)
  • 0521600499 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.1 23 TRI
Contents:
1. Studying the history of archaeology 2. Classical and other text-based archaeologies 3. Antiquarianism without texts 4. The beginnings of prehistoric archaeology 5. Evolutionary archaeology 6. Culture-historical archaeology 7. Early functional-processual archaeology 8. Processualism and postprocessualism 9. Pragmatic synthesis 10. The relevance of archaeology Bibliographical essay References Index.
Summary: In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first even to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in worldwide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory within a broad social
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General Books General Books CUTN Central Library History & Geography Non-fiction 930.1 TRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 40978

Previous ed.: 1989.

1. Studying the history of archaeology 2. Classical and other text-based archaeologies 3. Antiquarianism without texts 4. The beginnings of prehistoric archaeology 5. Evolutionary archaeology 6. Culture-historical archaeology 7. Early functional-processual archaeology 8. Processualism and postprocessualism 9. Pragmatic synthesis 10. The relevance of archaeology Bibliographical essay References Index.

In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first even to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in worldwide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory within a broad social

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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