The Archaeological Imagination |
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| Author:
| Shanks, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59874-361-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $84.95 |
Book Description:
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Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking--about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination.
Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking--about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination.