Reconstructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice

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Reconstructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice

Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley

Hodder's disciples, Shanks and Tilly's contribution to post-processual and post-modernist archaeological theory. An attempt to integrate new theory's and perspectives on the meaning of archaeology with the practical business of digging.