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This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme which is the
subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues
in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology.The central
question this book seeks to explore is this: Are we trying to
reconstruct a past in our own image, chained solely to our own
unacknowledged emotional, intellectual, and philosophical
traditions, or should we attempt to look beyond this at the
fundamental concepts we often take for granted, but which if
recognised as constructs of the relatively recent past, might begin
to allow us to acknowledge our limitations and potentially more
profitably engage with archaeological evidence in various ways.The
end result is not another nihilist offering based upon a
post-modernist collapsed perspective, but rather a considered
approach, which, if anything, is ultimately positivist in tone,
owing a debt, if anything, to the philosophical outlooks of
critical realism.This is a critical yet positive approach to how
contemporary conceptual outlooks, if unacknowledged, can seriously
influence our understanding of the past. It is an exploration and
evaluation of conceptual categories, of great significance to
archaeology, which are nevertheless often neglected - age,
experience, emotion, the senses, distance, colour etc.
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