This book shows the reader how much archaeologists can learn from
recent developments in cultural history. Cultural historians deal
with many of the same issues as postprocessual archaeologists, but
have developed much more sophisticated methods for thinking about
change through time and the textuality of all forms of evidence.
The author uses the particular case of Iron Age Greece (c. 1100-300
BC), to argue that text-aided archaeology, far from being merely a
testing ground for prehistorians' models, is in fact in the best
position to develop sophisticated models of the interpretation of
material culture.
The book begins by examining the history of the institutions
within which archaeologists of Greece work, of the beliefs which
guide them, and of their expectations about audiences. The second
part of the book traces the history of equality in Iron Age Greece
and its relationship to democracy, focusing on changing ideas about
class, gender, ethnicity, and cosmology, as they were worked out
through concerns with relationships to the past and the Near East.
Ian Morris provides a new interpretation of the controversial site
of Lefkandi, linking it to Greek mythology, and traces the
emergence of radically new ideas of the free male citizen which
made the Greek form of democracy a possibility.
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