n.a. (2004). A companion to archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Title:

A companion to archaeology

Number of Pages:

568

Publication Type:

Monograph Chapter

Abstract:

The book features essays on different types of archaeology and aims to define the field and describe what it means to be an archaeologist. It shows that contemporary archaeology is an astonishingly broad activity, with many contrasting specializations and ways of approaching the material record of past societies. The volume introduces readers to a range of archaeologists: those who devote themselves to the philosophy or the sociology of archaeology, those who see archaeology as politics or as anthropology, and those who contend that the essence of the discipline is a hard science. Among these experts are those who read the past through art, linguistics, or the built environment, and those professionals who present the past to the public through heritage management and museums. Includes

Publisher:

Blackwell Publishing

Year of Publication:

2004

ISBN:

0-631-21302-3

Subjects / Periods:

	Public & Archaeology (BIAB)
	Science-Based Archaeology [General Discussions Only] (BIAB)
	Theoretical Archaeology (BIAB)

Note:

Is Portmanteau: 1

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

06 Jul 2004

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Chapter Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End
Introduction		0
Analytical archaeology	Stephen J Shennan	3 - 20
The great dark book: archaeology, experience and interpretation	Julian Thomas	21 - 36
Archaeology and the genetic revolution	Martin Jones	39 - 51
Archaeology and language: methods and issues	Roger M Blench	52 - 74
The archaeology of gender	Marie L S Sørensen	75 - 91
Archaeology and social theory	Matthew Johnson	92 - 109
Materiality, space, time, and outcome	Roland Fletcher	110 - 140
Archaeological perspectives on local communities	Fokke Gerritsen	141 - 154
Archaeology and technology	Kevin T Greene	155 - 173
Time, structure and agency: the Annales, emergent complexity, and archaeology		174 - 194
Archaeological dating	John A J Gowlett	197 - 205
Chronology and the human narrative	John A J Gowlett	206 - 234
Classical archaeology	Ian Morris	253 - 271
The archaeologies of recent history: historical, post-medieval and modern-world	Charles E J Orser	272 - 290
Animal bones and plant remains	Peter A Rowley-Conwy	291 - 310
Ecology in archaeology: from cognition to action	Fekri A Hassan	311 - 333
The archaeology of landscape	Tony James Wilkinson	334 - 356
Archaeology and art	Robert Layton Jeremy Tanner Raymond Corbey	357 - 379
Putting infinity up on trial: a consideration of the role of scientific thinking...	Mark M Pollard	380 - 396
Experienceing archaeological fieldwork		397 - 405
Public archaeology: a European perspective	Timothy C Darvill	409 - 434
Museum studies	Linda Ellis	454 - 472
Relating anthropology and archaeology	Michael Rowlands	473 - 489
Archaeology and politics	Michael Shanks	490 - 508
Archaeology and green issues	Martin G Bell	509 - 531