From Stonehenge to Mycenae: The Challenges of Archaeological Interpretation

by Michael J. Boyd and John Barrett

Book Overview

This book reconsiders how we can understand archaeology on a grand scale by abandoning the claims that material remains stand for the people and institutions that produced them, or that genetic change somehow caused cultural change. Our challenge is to understand the worlds that made great projects like the building of Stonehenge or Mycenae possible. The radiocarbon revolution made the old view that the architecture of Mycenae influenced the building...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474291899
• ISBN13: 9781474291897
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"