1st Edition

The Archaeological Imagination

By Michael Shanks Copyright 2012
167 Pages
by Routledge

167 Pages
by Routledge

167 Pages
by Routledge

Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking—about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 We Are All Archaeologists Now; Chapter 2 Debatable Lands; Chapter 3 An Archaeological Narratology; Chapter 4 The Archaeological Imagination;

Biography

Michael Shanks