Archaeologists have long recognised that they study past worlds
which may be quite unlike our own. But how are we to cope with the
difference of the past if our own circumstances are unique within
human history? What if archaeology itself depends on ways of
thinking that are specific to the modern western world? This is the
first book-length study to explore the relationship between
archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas
that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still
dominate our approach to the material remains of ancient societies.
It discusses the modern emphasis on method rather than ethics or
meaning, our understanding of change in history and nature, the
role of the nation-state in forming our views of the past, and
contemporary notions of human individuality, the mind, and
materiality.
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