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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Studying the History of Archaeology | |
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Approaches to the History of Archaeology | |
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Social Context | |
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Archaeological Interpretation | |
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Challenge | |
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Classical and Other Text-Based Archaeologies | |
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Interests in the Past | |
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The Medieval View of History | |
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Renaissance Antiquarianism | |
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The Development of Classical Archaeology | |
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Egyptology and Assyriology | |
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Other First Archaeologies | |
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Conclusions | |
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Antiquarianism without Texts | |
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Antiquarianism in Northern Europe | |
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Recognition of Stone Tools | |
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The Enlightenment | |
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Scientific Antiquarianism | |
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Antiquarianism and Romanticism | |
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The New World | |
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The Impasse of Antiquarianism | |
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The Beginnings of Prehistoric Archaeology | |
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Relative Dating | |
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The Development and Spread of Scandinavian Archaeology | |
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The Antiquity of Humanity | |
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Palaeolithic Archaeology | |
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Reaction against Evolution | |
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Archaeology in North America | |
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Conclusions | |
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Evolutionary Archaeology | |
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The Rise of Racism | |
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Lubbock's Synthesis | |
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Colonial Archaeology in the United States | |
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Australian Prehistory | |
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Archaeology in New Zealand | |
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Racist Archaeology in Africa | |
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The Legacy of Evolutionary Archaeology | |
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Culture-Historical Archaeology | |
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Early Interests in Ethnicity | |
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Diffusionism | |
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The Montelian Synthesis of European Prehistory | |
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The Concept of Culture | |
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The Birth of Culture-Historical Archaeology | |
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Childe and The Dawn of European Civilization | |
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European Archaeology and Nationalism | |
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Other National Archaeologies | |
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Culture-Historical Archaeology in the United States | |
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Technical Developments | |
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Theory | |
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Conclusions | |
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Early Functional-Processual Archaeology | |
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Environmental Functional-Processualism | |
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Social Anthropology | |
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Economic Approaches | |
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Soviet Archaeology | |
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Childe as a Marxist Archaeologist | |
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Grahame Clark | |
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Early Functionalism in the United States | |
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The Conjunctive Approach | |
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Ecological and Settlement Archaeology | |
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World Archaeology | |
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Conclusions | |
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Processualism and Postprocessualism | |
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Neoevolutionism | |
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Early New Archaeology | |
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The Diversification of Processual Archaeology | |
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Postprocessual Archaeology | |
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Continental European Alternatives | |
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Discussion | |
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Pragmatic Synthesis | |
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Competing Approaches | |
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Theoretical Convergence | |
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Middle-Ranging Theory | |
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High-Level Theory | |
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The Relevance of Archaeology | |
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The Challenge of Relativism | |
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The Development of Archaeology | |
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Relations with Other Social Sciences | |
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Coping with Subjectivity | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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References | |
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Index | |