Creating the Human Past: An Epistemology of Pleistocene Archaeology

by Robert G. Bednarik

This book examines systematically both the theoretical and practical issues that have characterized the discipline over the past two centuries. Some of the historically most consequential mistakes in archaeology are dissected and explained, together with the effects of the related controversies. The theoretical basis of the discipline is deliberated in some detail, leading to the diagnosis that there are in fact numerous archaeologies, all with different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190573963X
• ISBN13: 9781905739639
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.5"