Archaeology: Theories, Methods and PracticeThames & Hudson, 2008 - 656 pages This best-selling textbook on what archaeologists do and how they do it has now been completely revised. Structured according to the key questions that archaeologists ask themselves, it provides coverage of all the major developments in methods, science, technology, and theory.For the fifth edition, the voices of indigenous archaeologists have been included, and there is updated coverage of archaeological ethics and Cultural Resource Management. Recent findings are discussed, and there is expanded coverage of topics such as bioarchaeology and geoarchaeology. |
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... cognitive studies among the first wave of New Archaeologists , deterred as they were by the seemingly untestable nature of so many ideas about the cognitive past . In this chapter , we argue that the skepticism of the early New ...
... cognitive studies among the first wave of New Archaeologists , deterred as they were by the seemingly untestable nature of so many ideas about the cognitive past . In this chapter , we argue that the skepticism of the early New ...
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... cognitive significance of the act of depiction itself , in all the vividness seen in the art of Chauvet or Lascaux in France , or Altamira in Spain . To admire this art is one thing ; but to develop frameworks of inference that allow us ...
... cognitive significance of the act of depiction itself , in all the vividness seen in the art of Chauvet or Lascaux in France , or Altamira in Spain . To admire this art is one thing ; but to develop frameworks of inference that allow us ...
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... cognitive map are hotly debated but there is little archaeological evidence to clarify the matter . Tool manufacturing and the deliberate burial of the dead . are two of many ways we may investigate the cognitive behavior of early ...
... cognitive map are hotly debated but there is little archaeological evidence to clarify the matter . Tool manufacturing and the deliberate burial of the dead . are two of many ways we may investigate the cognitive behavior of early ...
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Introduction | 9 |
How Did They Make and Use Tools? | 10 |
BOX FEATURES | 11 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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