Back to the Earth: An Introduction to Archaeology

A brief overview of archaeology that provides a ready understanding of the basic concepts and core issues in contemporary archaeological theory, methods of excavation and analysis, and interpretation.

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This clever murder mystery combines intrepid investigations with archaeological theory.

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Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology

Bringing together innovative recent research in the history, philosophy and socio-politics of archaeology, the aim of this collection is to consolidate new initiatives in archaeological theory and to examine questions recently brought to prominence by and in response to the New Archaeology.

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The archaeology of recent conflict is a fast-moving field of research. It is challenging and provocative. It deals with established historical events for which the material remains are unquestionably ‘heritage’, but also the more recent, tragic and heavily politicized events, actions and places whose meaning and significance is more ambiguous. But although recent and familiar, it is also a subject that draws closely on established principles of archaeological theory and practice, while also connecting with the related fields of history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, art and representation. John Schofield draws together projects and ideas from a diverse literature and from his own research, presenting them as a worked example of contemporary archaeology, of heritage management practice and of archaeological principles and theory. This study encapsulates a lively area of current debate: fascinating, challenging, controversial, contemporary and cross-disciplinary.

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Michael Shanks (Archaeologist)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Shanks (born 1959 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British archaeologist who has specialised in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the United States of America in 1999 to take up a Chair in Classics at Stanford University. He also taught classical studies at Whiltey Bay High School for a number of years during the 1980s and was well known by pupils for his hippy length hair and recitation of the odyssey in Greek without translation whilst sat cross legged on the teacher’s desk.

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