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Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History
Bradley L. Crowell Norman Yoffee
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Description for Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History
Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HDD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 683.
Although history and archaeology each seek to elucidate the past, both sets of data are incomplete and ambiguous and thus open to multiple readings that invite contradictory interpretations of human activity. This is particularly true when scholars of each field ignore or fail to understand research in the other discipline. Excavating Asian History contains case studies and theoretical articles that show how archaeologists have been investigating historical, social, and economic organizations and that explore the relationship between history and archaeology in the study of pre-modern Asia. These contributions consider biases in both historical and archaeological data that have occasioned rival ... Read more
Although history and archaeology each seek to elucidate the past, both sets of data are incomplete and ambiguous and thus open to multiple readings that invite contradictory interpretations of human activity. This is particularly true when scholars of each field ignore or fail to understand research in the other discipline. Excavating Asian History contains case studies and theoretical articles that show how archaeologists have been investigating historical, social, and economic organizations and that explore the relationship between history and archaeology in the study of pre-modern Asia. These contributions consider biases in both historical and archaeological data that have occasioned rival ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816524181
SKU
V9780816524181
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