A Companion to Archaeology

John Bintliff (Editor), Timothu Earle (Advisory Editor), Christopher Peebles (Advisory Editor)

ISBN: 978-0-631-21302-4

Hardcover

568 pages

February 2004, Wiley-Blackwell

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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Shows that contemporary archaeology is an astonishingly broad activity, with many contrasting specializations and ways of approaching the material record of past societies.
Includes essays by experts in reading the past through art, linguistics, or the built environment, and by professionals who present the past through heritage management and museums.
Introduces the reader to a range of archaeologists: those who devote themselves to the philosophy of archaeology, those who see archaeology as politics or anthropology, and those who contend that the essence of the discipline is a hard science.