1st Edition
Archaeological Situations Archaeological Theory from the Inside Out
By Gavin Lucas
Copyright 2023
208 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
39 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
Rather than see theory as something worked from the outside in, this book explores theory from the inside out, which means it focuses on specific... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
