Creating the human past : an epistemology of pleistocene archaeology / Robert G. Bednarik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bednarik, Robert G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period.

Archaeology.

Paleontology--Pleistocene.

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This text examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. The theoretical basis of the discipline is deliberated in some detail, leading to the diagnosis that there are in fact numerous archaeologies, all with different notions of commensurability, ideologies, and purposes. Their various perspectives of what archaeology is and does are considered and the range of views of the human past is illuminated in this book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 16, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781784910730

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.