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The Archaeology of Gender - Separating the Spheres in Urban America (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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The Archaeology of Gender - Separating the Spheres in Urban America (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
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Historical archaeologists often become so involved in their
potsherd patterns they seldom have time or energy left to address
the broader processes responsi ble for the material culture
patterns they recognize. Some ofus haveurged our colleagues to use
the historical record as a springboard from which to launch
hypotheses with which to better understand the behavioral and
cultural pro cesses responsible for the archaeological record.
Toooften, this urging has re sulted in reports designed like a
sandwich, having a slice of "historical back ground," followed by a
totally different "archaeological record," and closed with a
weevil-ridden slice of "interpretation" of questionable nutritive
value for understanding the past. The reader is often left to
wonder what the archae ological meat had to do with either slice of
bread, since the connection be tween the documented history and the
material culture is left to the reader's imagination, and the
connection between the interpretation and the other disparate parts
is tenuous at best. The plethora of stale archaeological sandwiches
in the literature has re sulted at the methodological level from a
too-narrow focus on the specific history and archaeology ofa site
and the individuals involvedon it, rather than a focus on the
explanation of broader processes of culture to which the actors and
events at the site-specific level responded."
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