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A History of Archaeological Thought
2006 Edition, 2nd Bruce Trigger
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In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting trends apparent in archaeological thought are defined and the author seeks to determine the extent to which these trends were a reflection of the personal and collective interests of archaeologists as these relate - in the West at least - to the fluctuating fortunes of the middle classes. While subjective influences have been powerful, Professor Trigger argues that the gradual accumulation of archaeological data has exercised a growing constraint on interpretation. In turn, this has increased the objectivity of archaeological research and enhanced its value for understanding the entire span of human history and the human condition in general.
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Coverpage
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Half title page
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Title page
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Copyright page
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Dedication
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Preface to the Second Edition
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1 Studying the History of Archaeology
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Approaches to the History of Archaeology
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Social Context
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Archaeological Interpretation
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Challenge
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2 Classical and Other Text-Based Archaeologies
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Interests in the Past
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The Medieval View of History
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Renaissance Antiquarianism
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The Development of Classical Archaeology
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Egyptology and Assyriology
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Other First Archaeologies
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Conclusions
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3 Antiquarianism without Texts
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Antiquarianism in Northern Europe
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Recognition of Stone Tools
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The Enlightenment
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Scientific Antiquarianism
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Antiquarianism and Romanticism
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The New World
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The Impasse of Antiquarianism
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4 The Beginnings of Prehistoric Archaeology
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Relative Dating
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The Development and Spread of Scandinavian Archaeology
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The Antiquity of Humanity
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Palaeolithic Archaeology
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Reaction against Evolution
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Archaeology in North America
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Conclusions
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5 Evolutionary Archaeology
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The Rise of Racism
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Lubbock’s Synthesis
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Colonial Archaeology in the United States
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Australian Prehistory
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Archaeology in New Zealand
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Racist Archaeology in Africa
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The Legacy of Evolutionary Archaeology
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6 Culture-Historical Archaeology
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Early Interests in Ethnicity
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Diffusionism
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The Montelian Synthesis of European Prehistory
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The Concept of Culture
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The Birth of Culture-Historical Archaeology
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Childe and The Dawn of European Civilization
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European Archaeology and Nationalism
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Other National Archaeologies
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Culture-Historical Archaeology in the United States
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Technical Developments
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Theory
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Conclusions
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7 Early Functional-Processual Archaeology
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Environmental Functional-Processualism
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Social Anthropology
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Economic Approaches
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Soviet Archaeology
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Childe as a Marxist Archaeologist
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Grahame Clark
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Early Functionalism in the United States
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The Conjunctive Approach
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Ecological and Settlement Archaeology
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World Archaeology
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Conclusions
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8 Processualism and Postprocessualism
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Neoevolutionism
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Early New Archaeology
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The Diversification of Processual Archaeology
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Postprocessual Archaeology
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Continental European Alternatives
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Discussion
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9 Pragmatic Synthesis
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Competing Approaches
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Theoretical Convergence
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Middle-Ranging Theory
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High-Level Theory
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10 The Relevance of Archaeology
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The Challenge of Relativism
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The Development of Archaeology
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Relations with Other Social Sciences
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Coping with Subjectivity
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Bibliographical Essay
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References
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Index
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Published: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780521600491 (paper)