Textbook
Historical ArchaeologyISBN: 978-1-4051-0751-8
Paperback
360 pages
December 2005, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Brings together a multitude of approaches, theoretical
perspectives, and geographies.
- Authored by nineteen experts in the field.
- Explores how historical archaeologists think about their work,
piecing together information from both material culture and
documents in an attempt to understand the lives of the people and
societies they study.
- Engages with current theory in an accessible manner.
- Truly global in its approach but avoids subsuming local
experiences of people into global patterns.
- Summarizes not only the current state of historical archaeology, but also sets the course for the field in decades to come.