Research Catalog

Title

Reconsidering archaeological fieldwork : exploring on-site relationships between theory and practice / Hannah Cobb ... [et al.], editors.

Publication

New York : Springer, c2012.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Cobb, Hannah
• European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting (13th : 2007 : Zadar, Croatia)
• Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference (2007 : York, England)
• European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting (13th : 2007 : Zadar, Croatia)

Description

x, 183 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

Collating diverse contributions from archaeologists in the Americas and Europe, this volume explores the nexus of the relationship between fieldwork, analysis, and interpretation, offering a long-overdue critical assessment of these standardized techniques.

Subject

• Archaeology > Fieldwork > Congresses
• Archaeology > Philosophy > Congresses
• Archaeology > Methodology > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Methodology > Congresses
• Social sciences
• Humanities
• Archaeology
• Cultural Heritage

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Outgrowth of two conference sessions in 2007: the European Association of Archaeologists meeting in Zadar, Croatia; and the Theoretical Archaeology Group (England) conference in York, England. Cf. acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reconsidering fieldwork, an introduction : confronting tensions in fieldwork and theory / Hannah Cobb ... [et al.] -- How to archaeologize with a hammer / Geoff Carver -- Often fun, usually messy : fieldwork, recording and higher orders of things / Reuben Thorpe -- Where the rubber hits the road : a critical analysis of archaeological decision making on highways projects in Ireland / Brendon Wilkins -- An archaeology of many steps / Marianne Lönn -- Stepping into comfortable old shoes : 'the consequence of archaeological comfortability' / Cara Jones and Philip Richardson -- Walking the line between past and present : 'doing' phenomenology on historic battlefields / John Carman and Patricia Carman -- The struggle within : challenging the subject/object relationship on a shoestring / members of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project -- Through many eyes : a non-hierarchical approach to interpreting a site in New Brunswick, New Jersey / Rebecca Yamin -- The archaeology of the aesthetic / Mark Leone ... [et al.] -- Commentary / Sarah May.

ISBN

• 9781461423379
• 1461423376
• 9781461423386 (electronic bk.)
• 1461423384 (electronic bk.)

OCLC

• 759914313
• SCSB-10450958

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library