Interpreting Archaeology

Finding Meaning in the Past

• Author(s): Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Ian Hodder, Jonathan Last, Gavin Lucas, Michael Shanks,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 1317799461
  ISBN_13: 9781317799467
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... 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.