Archaeology Yesterday and Today: The Development of Archaeology in the Sciences and HumanitiesCUP Archive, 30.11.1990 - 320 Seiten First published in 1990 as the English translation of a Czech original, this book presents a radical interpretation by Czech philosophers of science of the philosophical, social and political forces shaping archaeology from antiquity onwards. The text reflects upon the divergent paths taken by Anglo-American and European archaeology in the years preceding publication, largely in ignorance of each other. It provides a theoretically sophisticated and cosmopolitan overview of modern archaeology, treating the history of both traditions in a single framework. Moreover, archaeological history is linked to developments in historiography, anthropology and the history and philosophy of science. Illustrated by Czech cartoons which reflect its iconoclastic approach, this book constitutes an important and original contribution to the intellectual history of archaeology. |
Inhalt
The search for arche | 1 |
The earliest history | 8 |
For humanism the past is a source of nourishment as well | 15 |
knowledge about the past | 22 |
The birth of modern archaeology | 32 |
The ascendency of evolutionism | 40 |
A digression into the natural sciences | 67 |
the twentieth century | 78 |
The present | 96 |
Description classification and seriation | 149 |
Archaeological hypotheses | 210 |
Epilogue | 269 |
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