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Methods in the Mediterranean
Historical and Archaeological Views on Texts and Archaeology
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David Small
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English
Published/Copyright:
1994
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This collection of essays treats the fundamental issue of the correlation of archaeology and texts in recreating the ancient Mediterranean world. Contributions from Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians address specific points of correlation, and their potential for future productive research in the Mediterranean.
After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts.
This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general.
After an introduction to the issue of texts and archaeology, the essays treat concepts such as: site as text, artifactual contingency of meaning, correlating survey with documents, contextual independence of evidence, textual bases for archaeological approaches, and correlating faunal evidence with texts.
This book will be of important use to archaeologists and historians of the Mediterranean, and scholars of archaeological research in historical archaeology in general.
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David B. Small, Ph.D. (1983) in Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge, is Professor of Archaeology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lehigh University. He has published most recently on social evolution in ancient Greece, and theoretical issues of archaeological interpretation.
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'My general recommendation: get your library to buy the book if it can afford to; get it on interlibrary loan if it can't.'
Martin Kilmer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.
Martin Kilmer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.
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July 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004329409
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294
eBook ISBN:
9789004329409
Audience(s) for this book
Archaeologists and historians of the ancient Mediterranean, archaeologists in American historical, Mesopotamian, Central American, and European Medieval archaeology.
