Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork: Exploring On-Site Relationships Between Theory and Practice

By Hannah Cobb, Oliver J.T. Harris, Cara Jones, et al.

Book Overview

Chapter 1: Reconsidering Fieldwork, an Introduction: Confronting Tensions in Fieldwork and Theory, by Hannah Cobb, Oliver Harris, Cara Jones and Phil Richardson

Chapter 2: How to archaeologize with a hammer, by Geoff Carver

Chapter 3: Often Fun, Usually Messy: fieldwork, recording and higher orders of things, by Reuben Thorpe

Chapter 4: Where the rubber hits the road: a critical understanding of Archaeological Decision Making on Highways Projects in Ireland, by Brendon Wilkins

Chapter 5: An archaeology of many steps, by Marianne L?nn

Chapter 6: Stepping into Comfortable Old Shoes: 'The Consequence of Archaeological Comfortability', by Cara Jones and Phil Richardson

Chapter 7: Walking the Line Between Past and Present: 'Doing' Phenomenology on Historic Battlefields, by John Carman and Patricia Carman

Chapter 8: The Struggle Within: Challenging the subject/object relationship on a shoestring, by members of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project

Chapter 9: Through Many Eyes: A Non-Hierarchical Approach to Interpreting a Site In New Brunswick, New Jersey, by Rebecca Yamin

Chapter 10: The Archaeology of the Aesthetic, by Mark Leone, Amelia Chisholm, Karen Engelke, Amelia Harris, Genevieve Kaplan, Jessica Mundt and Wendi Perry

Chapter 11: Commentary, by Sarah May

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461423376
• ISBN13: 9781461423379
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"