ABSTRACT
This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their own value systems on the evidence which they presented.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|19 pages
Philosophical issues of interpretation
part 2|37 pages
The origins of meaning
part 3|46 pages
Interpretation, writing and presenting the past
part 4|40 pages
Archaeology and history
part 5|41 pages
Material culture