UID:
edocfu_9960177625702883
Format:
1 online resource (251 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-180438-X
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1-280-88162-3
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9786613722935
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0-19-162628-7
Content:
Humans occupy a material environment that is constantly changing. Yet in the twentieth century archaeologists studying British prehistory have overlooked this fact in their search for past systems of order and pattern. Artefacts and monuments were treated as inert materials which were the outcomes of social ideas and processes. As a result materials were variously characterized as stable entities such as artefact categories, styles or symbols in an attempt to comprehend them. Inthis book Jones argues that, on the contrary, materials are vital, mutable, and creative, and archaeologists need to
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; 1. An Archaeological Order; 2. Archaeology in Flux; 3. Materials and Scale; 4. Materials, Colour, and Light; 5. Materials and Categories; 6. Materials and Assemblages; 7. Materials and Performances; 8. Presenting Three Artefacts; 9. Mutable Archaeologies; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-955642-3
Language:
English
