Drawing on a wide range of archaeological examples from a variety of regions and periods, this book is an introduction not just to the issues of chronology and dating, but time as a theoretical concept and how this is understood and employed in contemporary archaeology.
Provides a fundamental examination of the conceptual framework within which archaeology is practised today. The relation between theoretical paradigms and everyday archaeological practice is critically explored.
Drawing on a wide range of archaeological examples from a variety of regions and periods, this book is an introduction not just to the issues of chronology and dating, but time as a theoretical concept and how this is understood and employed in contemporary archaeology.
Examines how colonial identities were constructed in the Cape Colony of South Africa since its... Læs mere