Interpreting Archaeology
Interpreting Archaeology
副标题: Finding Meaning in the Past
ISBN: 9780415157445
出版社: Routledge
出版年: 1997-05-05
页数: 288
定价: USD 44.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Interpreting Archaeology argues that archaeologists must understand their own subjective approaches to the material they study as well as recognize how past researchers imposed their value systems on the evidence they presented.
This volume provides a forum for debate between the varied approaches to the past from leading archaeologists in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. The contributors address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and the origins of meaning in the evolution and emergence of "mind" in early hominids. They discuss the ways in which material culture is understood and presented in museums, and how the nature of history is itself in flux.