Archaeological Situations

Autorentext

Gavin Lucas is professor of archaeology at the University of Iceland. His main research interests are in archaeological method and theory and the archaeology of the modern world. He has published several books on archaeological theory, most recently Writing the Past (2019) and Making Time (2021), both published with Routledge.

Klappentext

This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start.

Zusammenfassung
This book is an introduction to theory in archaeology but with a difference. Archaeological Situations avoids talking about theory as if it was something you apply but rather as something embedded in archaeological practice from the start.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Who's Afraid of Theory?; Chapter 2. Doing Fieldwork; Chapter 3. Making Records; Chapter 4. Writing Up; Chapter 5. Building a Case; Chapter 6. Doing Research; Chapter 7. Defining the Discipline; Coda: Theorizing without Theory.