Archaeology Yesterday and Today: The Development of Archaeology in the Sciences and Humanities

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CUP 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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