Archaeology and Text

by John Moreland

Book Overview

Archaeology and Text challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between history and archaeology by re-evaluating the role of artefacts and documents in the reconstruction of the historical past. Previous attempts to create a rapprochement between the disciplines have been undermined by a failure to see artefacts and documents as anything more than simple sources of information about the past. The central argument of this concise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715629980
• ISBN13: 9780715629987
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.5"