Archaeology: The Conceptual Challenge

by Timothy A. Insoll

This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology.The central question this book seeks to explore is this: Are we trying to reconstruct a past in our own image, chained solely to our own unacknowledged emotional, intellectual, and philosophical traditions, or should we attempt to look beyond this at the fundamental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715634577
• ISBN13: 9780715634578
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 8.4"