There IS a Bulletin of the History of Archaeology which has just
published Vol.17, No.1 in May.  Contact Melody Herr, BHA subscription
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Smoke

On 7/18/07, geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> isn't it ultimately all a reflection of the fact that no one really thought
> archaeology through very carefully? the histories keep talking about the
> role "uniformitarianism" played, but then british archaeology especially
> jumped onto the prehistoric bandwagon without seriously considering what
> that means: "the present is the key to the past" implies first off knowledge
> about the present: ethnographic analogy, experimental archaeology, site
> formation processes, etc.; then going "from the known to the unknown" should
> have put more stress on historical archaeology, then start making bigger
> jumps to "classical antiquity" then prehistoric, but...
> lord avebury & the boys, when they wrote up the relevant legislation, tried
> to ignore medieval remains in part because of some popular, egalitarian
> associations which seemed to threaten the social hierarchy...
> is there maybe a list on the history of archaeology?
>


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