This volume assesses the real achievements of archaeology in
increasing an understanding of the past. Without rejecting the
insights either of traditional or more recent approaches, it
considers the issues raised in current claims and controversies
about what is appropriate theory for archaeology. The first section
looks at the process of theory building and at the sources of the
ideas employed. The following studies examine questions such as the
interplay between expectation and evidence in ideas of human
origins, social role and material practice in the formation of the
archaeological record, and how the rise of states should be
conceptualised; further papers cover issues of ethnoarchaeology,
visual symbols, and conflicting claims to ownership of the past.
The conclusion is that archaeologists need to be equally wary of
naive positivism in the guise of scientific procedure, and of
speculation about the unrecorded intentions of prehistoric actors.
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